BIRDBRAIN / SUE YOUR PARENTS

by Allen Ginsberg, The Gluons

$125 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Denver, CO : Alekos Records / Wax Trax Records, 1981. The Beat poet's first shot a punk rock credibility, released a year before he appeared on The Clash's Ghetto Defendant. Side A records his anti-Reagan poem Birdbrain backed by Mike Chapell's Denver-based band The Gluons, with the bands Sue Your Parents on Side B. There were reportedly five pressings of 1,000 copies, each with a number of sleeve variations, though the earliest of these were

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