The boys" only acceptance of him came when the boys wanted to get closer to the girls. Kurt despised the attitudes of those boys and later told "I"m heterosexual big deal. But if I were homosexual, it wouldn't matter that much." .
Until Kurt was nine years old, the only music he listened to was the Beatles and The Monkees, but in 1979, his father joined a record club and Kurt was introduced to music like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and KISS. Although he listened to those kinds of bands, it was purely for their musical value, but not for their lyrics. The sexist attitude bored and disgusted Kurt. On the twenty-fifth of February 1981, Kurt received his first real guitar on his fourteenth birthday. In the years to follow, he tried to create his own music style and started to hang out in the Seattle Underground, a place for musicians to play and be heard, where he was a roadie for a band called the Melvins. His love for music was growing immensely as he saw the variety of music a whole.
As his life progressed, he sought refuge from his shattered family life by deviling into music and visual arts. His teachers regarded him with nothing but praise and commendation. Also at this time, Kurt had been growing enchanted with rock music as a forum for expressing the anger that was welling inside of him that he disparately needed to rid himself of. Kurt was frequently labeled homosexual in high school because of his disgust with the macho, chauvinistic attitudes of his peers and his hometown. He was a scapegoat, but not in the sense that people picked on him, but that he was so crazy and insane by then that people constantly left him alone. He was anti-social and with drawn from everyone. .
By that time, Kurt could not take it anymore. He dropped out of high school with only a few weeks left until graduation, which resulted in expulsion from his mother's house. He bounced from home to home, crashing on the couches of friends, and even sleeping under an Aberdeen bridge.