POISON IDEA: Pick Your King Vinyl LP

Portland, 1983. A band too heavy for most hardcore kids and too chaotic for everyone else puts out a 12" EP that promptly gets called one of the meanest slabs of American hardcore ever pressed to wax. They were not wrong.

Pick Your King is Poison Idea at ground zero, before the leather and the mythology, just pure blunt-force punk with Jerry A howling like something cornered. The cover alone, Jesus Christ on one side, Muhammad Ali on the other, tells you everything about the band's relationship with authority and reverence. This 2022 pressing means you can actually own it without paying collector prices for a copy that's been through three squats and a flood. Essential for anyone serious about American hardcore history, and a genuine artefact of the genre's most aggressive early chapter.

Vinyl 12" EP. Hardcore punk. Originally released 1983, this pressing 2022. Origin: USA.

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