Black Flag – Damaged

Black Flag

Black Flag –Damaged

1981

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Version Information

Labels
Unicorn Records
SST Records
Catalog number
9502
Original year
1981
Version year
1981
Region
US
Format

1 x Vinyl
MCA Distribution Logo
LP
Album

Version notes

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

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 $8,000 (USD) to produce. 25,000 pressed.
Lyric sheet was available by mail.

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.

Some copies with the anti-parent sticker that were sent out for radio promotion have an additional sticker on the front of the cover stating:

"Recommended For Airplay
T.V. Party
Rise Above"

℗ 1981 Unicorn Records, Inc. (on anti-parent and promo stickers)
℗ 1981 SST Records (on side 2 label)

Tracklist

A1.Rise Above 2:17
A2.Spray Paint The Walls 0:32
A3.Six Pack 2:18
A4.What I See 1:47
A5.T.V. Party 3:11
A6.Thirsty & Miserable 2:05
A7.Police Story 1:30
A8.Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie 1:50
B1.Depression 2:45
B2.Room 13 2:03
B3.Damaged II 3:23
B4.No More 2:23
B5.Padded Cell 1:50
B6.Life Of Pain 2:48
B7.Damaged I 3:50

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