Can You Retire if You Never Had a Job? NOFX Will Try.

After 40 years, the punk band NOFX is walking away with a farewell tour that is nothing short of a victory lap.

When they were teenagers, the group developed an extreme do-it-yourself ethos. They had no interest in working for anyone else.

As “the Grateful Dead of punk rock,” they played more than 3,000 shows, and sold more than seven million albums, without ever having a radio hit or much mainstream attention.

And now they are ready to say goodbye — and unlike other bands they promise there will be no reunion tours.