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Black Flag - Damaged

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Record Details

Artist: Black Flag
Title: Damaged
Format: 12"
Label: Unicorn Records / SST Records
Cat No: 9502 / 9502
Released: 1981
Genres: HardcorePunk
Condition Good
Status Have
Added To List 17th November 2012
Disc 1 | 12"
Good
1st Pressing 
A Matrix:
UNI 4-9502-A-RE L7485 IIII Comin At Ya  
B Matrix:
UNI 4-9502-B The Whole Gelatinous thing L-7485-X  

Additional Information

Comments First pressing on Unicorn Records.
First pressing has blue labels. Later pressings had green labels.

First pressing is this issue (MCA logo on rear, "anti-parent" sticker on some, "UNI/4" matrices).
First version recut/reissue is here (No MCA logo, "Kendun" matrices).
Second version recut/reissue is here (no MCA logo, "Neo-Gelatinous" and S-9375/6 matrices).

Matrix Etchings:
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Side A: "COMING AT YA" "UNI/4-9502-A-RE" "L-7485"
Side B: "THE WHOLE GELATINOUS THING" "UNI4/9502-B" "L-7485-X"

Lyric sheet was available by mail.
25,000 pressed.

MCA Records (with which Unicorn Records had a distribution deal) distribution chief Al Bergamo announced that the company would not distribute this record, deeming that "It just didn't seem to have any redeeming social value" and because, as a parent with two children, he found it an anti-parent record. "Damaged" was eventually released by Unicorn through an independent distributor. Later, after Unicorn's bankruptcy and almost years of litigation during which Black Flag was forbidden to release any record, they re-released and distributed it through Greg Ginn's own SST Records.
This record cost Black Flag only $8,000 (USD) to produce.

Some early copies released with a sticker stating "As A Parent..., I Found It An Anti-Parent Record..." on the back of the jacket, covering up the MCA distribution logo.
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