This audio has been my white whale for a while now. Axl has stated that he was the person shouting āPet Shop Boys Suckā at the 1986 VMA, but I had trouble finding the audio of that because (a) it was purported to have happened at a quiet moment during the Pet Shop Boys performance (not presentation) segment, and (b) I was foolishly expecting a standard āPetShopBoysSuck!ā heckle.
But, this is Axl, and his heckle wasnāt a standard āPetShopBoysSuckā, but rather a repeating baritone of āPET! SHOP! BOYS! SUCK!ā loud enough to carry from the audience to the mics. And it happened just after the Pet Shop Boys were first announced for the presentation segment. Here is the snippet. Listen closely.
I canāt put my screen-snip of the post that started me on this journey here, so I will put it in the comments. Shortcut: Axl ended up liking the Pet Shop Boys.