While some pop music pioneers are still awaiting a call from the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, one English punk group is spitting on the honor to be bestowed on it in New York next month.

The Sex Pistols declined the honor -- to be handed out March 13 at a dinner and performance at the Waldorf Astoria -- in a crudely scrawled, mispunctuated handwritten message posted on the band's website.

"Next to the SEX PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a p--- stain," the statement read. "Your museum. Urine in wine. Were (sic) not coming. Were (sic) not your monkey and so what?"

The statement slammed Hall of Fame voters as "music industry people," and excoriated the high price of attending the exclusive event -- $25,000 for a table, "or $15,000 to squeak up in the gallery."

It concluded, "Your (sic) not paying attention. Outside the s---stem is a real SEX PISTOL."

Other 2006 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include Black Sabbath, Blondie, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and industry executives Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.

Susan Evans, executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said of the band's announcement, "They're being the outrageous punksters that they are, and that's rock 'n' roll."

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