This is the holy grail for LA punk collectors. The Germs’ (GI) — the title stands for Germs Incognito — is the only studio album from Darby Crash and company, released in 1979 on Slash Records and produced by none other than Joan Jett. It also features Pat Smear, later of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, on guitar. An original Slash SR-103 pressing with the original lyric inner sleeve intact is the version every collector chases, and at $199 it’s honestly a fair price given how rarely these surface. Songs like “Lexicon Devil” and “What We Do Is Secret” defined the KBD (Killed by Death) punk sound. 35 watchers on this listing says everything.
