The Stains - Feel Guilty 7" 1980 Gutterworst Records, 1000 pressed. Not to be confused with the LA band The Stains or the UK band The Stains. This is one of the best looking records I own. Clear wax with black splatter is a pretty rare color, especially for a thirty three year old record.
I got this from my dad. He had mail-ordered three of these from Fred Herring, a pseudonym for Dave Buxton, I think. It's a pseudonym for someone in the band. There are four letters from this Fred Herring written to my father talking about the records, their merchandise, and other random things. He talks about how they were going to press 500 copies of an LP in a few months, but that never happened.
This band had the full length album released in 1989 for their ten year university. I wish I had one of those. If anyone reading
this has one to sell- email me! There was also a 2004 release in some serious called "American Lost Punk Rock Nuggets".
These guys are a lot more musically talented than most of the earlier punk bands. It's also pretty well-produced. The first two songs are originals, Sick of Being Sick is a Damned song, and Submission is a Sex Pistols cover. These dudes must have loved the Pistols. You can tell they really strive to sound just like em. The singer even sounds like he has a British accent at times. They originated from Portland, Maine, and talk about living in Boston in one of these letters. For anyone who ever comes across this record in shop or online, I would recommend picking it up.
1. Feel Guilty
2. Give Ireland Back to the Snakes
3. Sick of Being Sick
4. Submission
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