Too bad I can hardly stand to listen to it.

It's fun! And from what I hear, it really captures the essence of their drunken performances. (I've only seen them one, when they were sober. But they were notoreous for getting wasted and playing whatever crap covers they could think of.)

The other day someone brought up having to buy albums twice, if you have the LP and want the CD. I've done this a lot. I've also purchased DarK Side of the Moon three times, on cassette (which was stolen), LP and CD.

Aaaaannnnnd.... I've purchased Never Mind the Bollocks twice, on 8-track and CD. Yes, 8-track. For 25 cents at a K-Mart. Then a bastard roomate stole it. It was worth $40 in 1987 when he stole it. I'm afraid to know what it's worth now.

Now must find my copy of The Shit Hits the Fans.

t clutches my original cassette copy

What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.

I've only seen them one, when they were sober. But they were notoreous for getting wasted and playing whatever crap covers they could think of.

Oh yeah, I saw one of those! It was a hell of a lot of fun. But I got some bootlegs from Tina last year that captured the reckless, wasted glory as well as The Shit Hits The Fans, and some of those I could only listen to a couple of times as well.

What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.

This statement is true with the intensity of a thousand burning suns.

I've purchased Never Mind the Bollocks twice, on 8-track and CD.

A story concerning Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols. Back in the day, of course, there was a court case in the UK seeking to prevent its release on grounds of indecent language (i.e. 'bollocks'). The Sex Pistols' lawyer was the human rights advocate, and expatriate Aussie, Geoffrey Robertson. He argued before the courts, successfully as it turned out, that 'bollocks' was a perfectly acceptable English term of considerable history. In fact, he pointed out, it was the favoured term for testicles in English translations of the Bible, until the King James Version, when they opted to use 'stones' instead.

Geoffrey Robertson recounts, "At this point, Mr Rotten leaned over to me and told me not to worry if they didn't win the case, as they would simply rename the album 'Never Mind the Stones, Here's The Sex Pistols'."

What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.

Eh, I like 'em both. The produced version has its own Jim Dickinson-style goodness. By which I mean kooky horns and weird noises.

I have one of those too! (Hand stamped copy of Stink) And an original copy of Shit Hits the Fans.

Cherished possessions indeed.

Tommyrot, I have SHTF on CD - you can borrow it to burn a copy.

cathy has a big-ass painting of the cover to Let it Be hanging in her living room.

What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.

This is so true. They'd been playing that version live for YEARS - imagine my disappointment when I first played Pleased to Meet Me.

The lyrics are all wrong, and...horns?

Jon, I, um... forget where you're from. Were you in Minneapolis in the '80s? Or were you so cool that you were into the Replacements from the beginning while not living in Minneapolis?