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Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death

Dead Kennedys · 1987 · Vinyl-LP · US · VIRUS 57

1st US pressing, most easily identified by the lack of a bar code on the back cover. Issued with a flexi-disc, and a 24 page newsprint booklet insert which has lyrics, credits, and art. Also included was an Alternative Tentacles Records merchandise insert / order form. The merchandise inserts for copies distributed in 1987 showed the available releases going up to either VIRUS 54 (less common) or VIRUS 58 (most copies). The back side of this A.T. merchandise insert may or may not have No More Censorship Defense Fund information printed on it. This No More Censorship info is also reported to have been issued as a separate insert. Copies in covers without bar codes were also distributed in 1989, with a single-sided merchandise insert that has images for VIRUS 66, 67, 72, 73, and 74. It's not clear whether these copies were remaining stock from the 1987 pressing, with updated merchandise inserts, or if they represent a separate pressing in which the covers, booklets, flexis and vinyl are all identical to the 1987 pressing. LP Side 1 listed as 'This Side'; Side 2 listed as 'That Side'. The tracks are listed sequentially, from 1 to 17. Sleeve: ℗ + © 1987 Alternative Tentacles. Jacket made in Canada. LP labels: ©&℗ 1987 Alternative Tentacles Records. Flexi mfd. in U.S.A. by Eva-Tone Soundsheets, Clearwater, FL. C & P 1987 Alternative Tentacles Records. Both songs published by Decay Music. This sound sheet comes free with the "Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death" LP. If someone tries to charge you extra, steal it. Flexi Side 1 is 45 RPM and Side 2 is 33 1/3 RPM. All songs published by Decay Music except B9 published by Acuff Rose Opryland Music Co Inc. Bruce Slesinger is credited as 'Bruce Slesinger (A.K.A. Ted)'. Jayed Scotti cover art and Winston Smith insert contributions for Fallout Productions. Lt. V. Vale's insert contribution for Research. A1: B-side of second single, [m=31769] .Also inserted in the original American version of the [r=1519148] LP. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI) A2: A-side of fourth single, [m=31800]. Released Spring, 1981 (Alternative Tentacles Virus 2). Recorded at Mobius Music and Hyde Street Studios. ©1981 Decay Music (BMI) A3: A-side of first single, [m=31729]. Released June, 1979 (Alternative Tentacles 95-41, Re-issued 1980 on Optional). Released the following October in the U.K. on Fast Products. Recorded at BSU Studio. Original inside sleeve art by Mark Pauline later asked that his name be removed because part of the art had been altered. ©1979 Decay Music (BMI) A4: B-side of first single, [m=31729]. ©1979 Decay Music (BMI) A5: B-side of third single, [m=31779]. Released Fall, 1980 (A-side was a slight re-mix of 'Kill The Poor'). ©1980 Decay Music (BMI) A6: B-side of [m=31807] single. Released Summer, 1982 (Alternative Tentacles Virus 23). Recorded at Hyde Street Studios and Mobius Music. ©1982 Decay Music (BMI) A7: Originally appeared on double album compilation, Maximum Rock N' Roll presents: [m=53979] (Alternative Tentacles Virus 14). Recorded at Tom Mallon Studio. ©1982 Decay Music (BMI) A8: A-side of second single, [m=31769]. An alternate version appeared later on the [m=31756] LP. Released Spring, 1980. First on Optional Records, then on I.R.S. with an upgraded sleeve. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI) B9: Mixed at City Sound. Recorded at Hyde Street Studios. Originally intended for release as a flexi-disc in 1985 under the name 'Lily White Dan and the Hot Potatoes', to be given away at street protests marking Dan White's return to San Francisco. Later appeared on the Rose 100 - [m=550450] double LP compilation album released worldwide by New Rose Records, France, in 1986. Published by Acuff-Rose (BMI)/Decay Music (BMI) B10: Recorded at Hyde Street Studios and Mobius Music. Mixed at Hyde Street Studios. B-side of [m=31809] single. Released December, 1982 (Alternative Tentacles Virus 28). ©1982 Decay Music (BMI) B11: Recorded live at BAM magazine's 3rd Annual Bay Area Music Awards at the Warfield Theater, San Francisco, March 25, 1980. Special thanks to Dennis Erokan and Miles Hurwitz for granting us use of this recording. Originally intended for release as part of a 4-song live 12" EP. The other three songs would have been the versions of 'Bleed For Me', 'Government Flu', and 'Chemical Warfare' recorded for the film, 'URGH! A Music War' and rebroadcast on MTV's, 'The Cutting Edge'. A & M Records had purged us from the [m=29237] soundtrack album because they didn't like our band name; thus the Winston Smith sleeve design. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI) B12 and B13: Originally appeared on [m=20800] live compilation LP. Recorded March 3, 1979. Last performance with the five-piece-line-up. An earlier version of 'Police Truck' was also featured. Released 1980 by Walking Dead Records first through Optional and later through Jem. ©1979 Decay Music (BMI) B14: Originally appeared on [m=1208776] benefit compilation LP, released spring, 1982 by Pax U.K. Later appeared on [m=30026] released by RRadical, late 1984. Mixed at Möbius Music. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI) B15: B-side of fourth single, [m=31800]. Recorded at Mobius Music, Hyde Street Studios and live in the Tenderloin (we ran a mic from the Hyde St. Studio A control Board out into the street to record the background noises). ©1981 Decay Music (BMI) C16: Produced at Mobius Music, Spring, 1982. ©1987 Decay Music (BMI) D17: Words and Music Improvised While Ray Was Changing Guitar Strings. Recorded Live by Persons Unknown at the Earth Tavern, Portland Oregon on November 19, 1979. ©1987 Decay Music (BMI)