Hate Us Or Love Us We Don't Give A Fuck

When a copy of this crawled its way into Redscroll a while ago I quickly snagged it, even though the sound quality is pretty iffy (bootleg-quality live tracks from '77), because I'd rather have a shitty-sounding Crime record than a good-sounding record by one of those bands that you like, Title Fight or whatever. Besides, it was through a cruddy-sounding live tape (of "She's a Cadaver") that I first discovered the Pagans, back in '84 or whenever, so don't be afraid to pass those shitty tapes around, you never know when some good might come out of it. This was originally a bootleg called "Terminal Boredom" which Planet Pimp then 'officially' re-issued, so that more people could own the same crappy-sounding Crime record I guess.




Crime -

"Dillinger's Brain"

"Terminal Boredom"

I'm Stupid Anyway

Three best American punk bands: Crime, Pagans, Weirdos, though not necessarily in that order... I was never lucky enough to actually own any Crime records, but I ended up being just lucky enough to find "Piss On Your Turntable", a bootleg CD that collects just about every piece of Crime vinyl in one place. A good chunk of the CD is the "San Francisco's Doomed" LP, a semi-legit release from about 20 years ago, half of which was a studio demo recorded in early '78, the other half being a rehearsal recording from '79. The '78 stuff fucking rips-- heavy drums and loud guitars all over the place, just a classic piece of rock... there's also a 12-page booklet of lyrics and stuff, but I'm not gonna scan the whole thing because nobody ever reads that shit... anyway, here's a couple of tracks from the '78 recording, plus the whole thing all at once, which I'll take down sooner than eventually...

Crime -





For a short time, here's a .zip file with all 11 tracks from the '78 recording:

Crime - San Francisco's Doomed (1978 demo)