Released June 1981 on Dischord Records out of Washington, D.C., this is one of the most historically important records in American punk. Eight songs recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia — total runtime just over nine minutes — and the impact was permanent. “Straight Edge” at A4 inadvertently coined a term that spawned a global subculture still active today.
The pressing sequence runs: 1st (red sleeve, yellow labels) → 2nd (yellow sleeve, blue labels) → 3rd (green sleeve, silver labels) → 4th (blue sleeve, silver labels), each run limited to 1,000 copies. All four share the same hand-folded, photocopied 8.5″ × 14″ lyric insert — notoriously fragile and frequently lost. A green sleeve with its insert intact is a serious find.
Tracklist
Side A — Filler / I Don’t Wanna Hear It / Seeing Red / Straight Edge
Side B — Small Man, Big Mouth / Screaming at a Wall / Bottled Violence / Minor Threat
