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Got a fresh looking copy of Poison Idea’s “Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes”here. Original edition on Fatal Erection. For whatever reason I find this to be an unfairly disparaged P.I. release, often cited as being only “so-so” or something like that, and while I do agree that the Fatal Erection pressing is mixed TERRIBLY and sounds like garbage, the songs are still pretty crucial. I mean if A.A. isn’t a classic Poison Idea tune than what is? Or how about Cold Comfort or Thorn In My Side? That’s just the A-Side folks. On the flip you can find jams like Rich Get Richer, or maybe Time To Go will catch your fancy. All in all it’s just a little more rock/metal than Pick Your King, and not quite as tight as Kings Of Punk, but it’s still hot stuff. There’s a reissue with 4 other comp tracks from this session added to it (on Taang), here’s a shocker: they’re all good too. Poison Idea’s success rate in music is unprecedented, the only band comparable is Motorhead.

And now… a list of the records on the cover of this 12″ (via Westbrook & Cooch):

Adverts - One Chord Wonders 7″
Agent Orange - Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 7″
Angelic Upstarts - Who Killed Liddle Towers 7″
Antidote - Thou Shalt Not Kill 7″Anti-Nowhere League - Streets Of London 7″
Avengers - We Are the Ones 7″
B.G.K. - White Male Dumbinance 7″
Bad Religion - S/T 7″
Bags - Survive 7″
Battalion Of Saints - Fighting Boys 12″
Big Boys/Dicks - Live At Raul’s 12″
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown 7″
Charles Manson - Lie 12″
Child Molesters - Wir Lieben Die Jugendlich Madchen 12″
Cockney Rejects - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 12″
Crime - Hotwire My Heart 7″
Damned - Black Album 12″
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer 7″
Dickies - Banana Splits 7″
Dickies - Dawn Of the Dickies 12″
E.A.T.E.R. - Doomsday Troops 7″
Elvis Presley - several 45s
Fartz - Because This World Fuckin Stinks 7″
Fix - Vengeance 7″
Germs - Lexicon Devil 7″
Germs - GI 12″
Johnny Moped - Cycledelic 12″
Kangrena - Terorismo Sonoro 7″
Legionaire’s Disease Band - Rather See You Dead 7″
Meatmen - We’re The Meatmen 12″
Menace - Screwed Up 12″
Misfits - Beware 12″
Misfits - Cough Cool 7″
Misfits - Horror Business 7″
Motorhead - S/T 12″
Necros - IQ32 7″
Nikoteens - Aloah-Oehh LP
Noncens - s/t 7″
Out Of Our Heads - Riot EP 7″
Poison Idea - Pick Your King 7″ (crumpled up cover)
Quick And The Dead - Another Violent Night 7″
Rough - S/T 7″
S.O.A. - No Policy EP 7″
Saints - I’m Stranded 12″
Shitlickers - Cracked Cop Skulls 7″
Skrewdriver - All Skrewed Up 12″
Skrewdriver - Voice Of Britain 7″
Subhumans - s/t 12″
Teen Idles - Minor Disturbance 7″
Tesco Vee - Dutch Hurcules 12″
Ultimo Resorte 7″
United Mutations - Fugitive Family 7″
V/A - Tooth and Nail 12″
V/A - Yes L.A. 12″
V/A - Oi! The Album 12″
V/A - What Records comp 7″
Wretched / Indigesti - split 7″
Youth Brigade - Sound and Fury 12″
Touch & Go Fanzine - Issue 21
Skinhead book, Manson book, Elvis book