Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes L.P.

Poison Idea | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Taang Records
• ASIN: B000000ERN
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,899 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great record, crappy CD package, November 6, 2008

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Woodrow (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes L.P. (Audio CD)

Come on Taang! Don't you think it's time to remaster and repackage Poison Idea's catalog? I had this on vinyl since it came out but it's trashed so decided to pick up the CD. Great music but horrible mastering job and crappy booklet. Poison Idea deserve much better than this. God bless Pig Champion, RIP.

Check out Mighty High...In Drug City

5.0 out of 5 stars Second only to "Pick Your King", October 6, 2008

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A. Groff (Eastern Mass.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes L.P. (Audio CD)

I second the remarks of the venerable Chris BCT--this is second only to "Pick Your King", simply because PYK is so short and fast that there are no spaces between the songs (on the vinyl copy anyway). To his classic lineup of the first three releases, I would only add "War All the Time," which also stands up nicely.

I was fortunate enough to see PI a couple times on their 1990 East Coast tour, and they were billiant. Still got my "World's Loudest Drunks" t-shirt.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the certain classics of its day to punx worldwide in early 80's., January 14, 2006

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Chris bct "music everyday" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes L.P. (Audio CD)

I've noticed that amazon.com allows some record titles with bad words in them. Maybe whomever put this up on the site was just being discreet. Of course, the full title is: 'Record Collectors Are Pretensious A.holes'. Oh how ironic eh? Given that there were so many cool punk records to collect and hardly any decent way to hear a bunch of great punk rock without the records. Yes, late 70's, early 80's was before CD's and mp3's or any downloading of any kind. It was all about vinyl or cassette. Sure, some 8 track but never in punk as far as I know. Flexi's too! (a thin record that was wavy like thick paper that was a very thin record that usually was from some (punk maga)zine.

This 12" blasted people outta their chairs. Half the fun was looking at the beautiful punk rock record collection on the front cover. Why did punx collect records? Cuz the music wasn't available that much on the radio and it was Do It Yourself bands and labels releasing the stuff, often learning about the existance of the records from punk zines.

Nice independent system. It's still alive today. World wide.
Course, there's nothin' like the original thing, and this record is right in there. Real hardcore punk rock. Portland, land 'o POISON IDEA. Wot a band. Didn't tour in Southern California far as I know, or I just missed 'em when they did. Woulda loved to have seen them live back in the day. After this, Pick Your King 7" and Kings of Punk album their sound slowly degenerated into too much hard, too much metalish flavor, and songs that just weren't as magical as these first 3 records, 7", 12" and lp.

This baby (punk) rocks. Show no hesitation. Just buy it. You won't be sorry, assuming yer totally into high quality hardcore punk rock. [e-mail]