Violators

The UK. By many people wrongly thought of as the birthplace of Punk, nevertheless produced an incredible number of iconic, classic, crucial, legendary, or whatever adjective you want to use here punk bands.

In the early days a lot of those punks released records through Major Labels that jumped the bandwagon but a little down river some smaller/DIY Labels surfaced. Clay Records might be the best known next to No Future Records.

While Clay, apart from Discharge, didn't release a lot of records catering to my taste, No Future is a whole different story. At least their first 20 releases are either in my collection or on my wantlist. Admittedly there's quite a range of importance each one of those has for me but sooner or later I want all of those.

The Violators' singles are definitely further up on my scale though but so far I haven't had any luck finding one of them for a decent price. Which is why I was pretty thrilled about this release:

 

Violators - singles 82/83 LP - Vomitopunkrock Records REF 007 LP

 

Some dude from Spain posted on facebook about his label releasing this record. Of course I didn't hesitate for a second and put in a pre-order to get some copies for our distro. By the time they shipped they had already sold all of the 300 copies they had made and it didn't take long until it was sold out from us too.

 

So I guess this band is more legendary than I thought. Which would explain why I only see their OG 7"es being sold online but hardly ever at a real deal record store. Well, for now this record will do.