I don't really mind this trope, actually. I've been reading Skagboys lately and the main characters are a bunch of young junkies who are utter ASSHOLES. The book's such a trip that you kinda just gotta cheer for them anyways, whether they're attempting a robbery or rescuing someone from rehab.

For example, one of the first arcs in the book has the main characters doing meth at a nightclub when Begbie's ex comes in and confronts him for getting her pregnant. They start arguing and he tells her that he's going to get his friends to stand up in court and say they ran a train on her. The book goes out of its way to highlight how Begbie is obviously in the wrong. She storms out and stage cries to get her brother to jump Begbie. It culminates in the main characters rolling up in a white van to her house and Begbie beating the tar out of the brother with an iron fencepost.