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sidewinder · 10-26-2009, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tgpo

Is it because Police Truck was in Guitar Hero, so everyone buys this one album and calls themselves a lifetime fan of Dead Kennedys?

I can't speak for today's newer fans. But in the early 90s when I picked it up (vinyl), for some reason it grabbed my attention before the others. Perhaps the cool cover art and the cool name. Perhaps because of the track "Too Drunk to Fuck" (which isn't all that great, but a guy in one of my classes had the t-shirt and it caught my attention...probably first exposure to DK). I don't know. But until recently, it's the only release I'd ever owned from them. Well, still is, I downloaded Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.