Sold Date: November 18, 2018
Start Date: November 15, 2018
Final Price: $35.00 (USD)
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Bad Religion: How Could Hell Be any Worse?

Includes liner notes; lyrics and photos of the band

© 1981 Epitaph Records (released in '82).
Recorded and engineered at Track Record in Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Gold Star, Hollywood, USA.

Cardboard sleeve / No barcode on back.
Shows original Epitaph address on Ventura Blvd./Suite F/ Woodland Hills, CA 91364

The © date is 1981 but the album was released in 1982.

Vinyl is in VG+ (near-mint) shape, cover has some shelf wear & a little dry rot and has “HANNA” written on top left. Previous owner wrote “G. Hanna” on label of Side A. Inside cover includes an 11” x 23” insert with handwritten lyrics on one side and photos of the band on the other.

I've taken “overexposed” photos of each side to show the shape they are in. Please note that marks visible are of the photographer.

Bad Religion was formed in Los Angeles in 1980 by high school students Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Jay Ziskrout, and Brett Gurewitz. Their first public performance was playing 6-8 songs at a Fullerton, California (or Santa Ana, California) warehouse opening for Social Distortion. Their first official show was on November 11, 1980 at Joey Kills Bar in Burbank, California.

In 1981, the band released their initial EP on the newly formed label, Epitaph Records, which was and continues to be managed and owned by Gurewitz. Also in 1981, the band began recording their first full-length album, How Could Hell Be Any Worse? During the recording of this album, drummer Jay Ziskrout quit the band, and was replaced by Peter Finestone. Released in 1982, How Could Hell Be Any Worse? was also distributed by the band under the Epitaph label, and sold roughly 12,000 copies, 10,000 within a year.

Tracklist:

A1: We're Only Gonna Die

A2: Latch Key Kids

A3: Part III Guitar [Solo] –Greg Hetson

A4: Faith In God

A5: Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell

A6: Pity

A7: In The Night

AA1: Damned To Be Free

AA2: White Trash (2nd Generation)

AA3: American Dream

AA4: Eat Your Dog

AA5: Voice Of God Is Government

AA6: Oligarchy

AA7: Doin' Time

Credits

Bass Guitar – Jay Bentley

Drums, Timpani – Jay Ziskruot* (tracks: A2, A5, AA1 to AA5, AA7), Pete Fienstone* (tracks: A1, A3, A4, A6, A7, AA6)

Engineer – Jim Mankey

Guitar [Guitars], Backing Vocals – Brett*

Photography By – Ed Colver, Fer Youz

Vocals, Piano – Greg Graffin

Written-By – Brett* (tracks: A7, AA2, AA3, AA6, AA7), Greg* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to A6, AA1, AA4), Jay* (tracks: A3, AA5)

Written by, Arranged By, Producer – Bad Religion

Top back cover: EPI-BRLP1 (Epitaph catalogue #1, first pressing)

Barcode: None

Matrix / Runout (Side A, etchings): JBGPNOJZ-A L-8201 WHERE THE HELL IS RACINE??

Matrix / Runout (Side AA, etchings): JBGPNOJZ-AA SOLIDARN OSC L-8201A̶X

My story: I managed 3 used record stores and before that worked at the record booth at the local flea market record booth, where I learned the trade from “The Old Hip-Eye,” cleaning thousands of albums and becoming conversant with just about all the bands of note. I worked there for trade, and afterward, as manager of 3 different used record stores, I either got paid cash or x2 in trade, and spent many a paycheck collecting vinyl, particularly rare punk rock. I was the primary record buyer at Alley Cat Records, Lawrence, KS (in 2 locations) and Archives Records (Des Moines, IA) and bought both used and new records (from labels including Mammoth, Lookout, etc.).

Most of my private collection consists of near-mint, autographed & carefully, barely played vinyl records which have been stored safely since purchase and kept in a smoke and pet free environment.

The vinyl, Cassettes & rare CDs* I sell are in the condition stated, and many never even hit the shelves of the stores in which I worked, as I got first crack at the stock before it was put into the “New Arrivals” bin. I always handle vinyl with the audiophile care I've come to learn in handling records with for professional grading and buying purposes.

*I don't rate case condition as they break easily in transit.

If you live in or near Lawrence, KS 66046, you are welcome to pick up your items directly.

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