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I’ve loved the debut Clash album ever since it first graced my record collection, and I’ve loved it with the particular ardor only a punk kid laying out his hard-earned cash for his first important LP purchase can bring to such devotion, as that’s exactly how I acquired my copy.

March 1, 1979
Richard Riegel

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THE CLASH Give ’Em Enough Rope (Epic

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Richard Riegel

I’ve loved the debut Clash album ever since it first graced my record collection, and I’ve loved it with the particular ardor only a punk kid laying out his hard-earned cash for his first important LP purchase can bring to such devotion, as that’s exactly how I acquired my copy. After skulking around my mailbox in jaded-rockcritic sloth for too many months, waiting to see whether Columbia would indeed exercise their option and release an American edition of the LP, I finally took the words of all my compatriots, breezed down to the local JEM outlet, and plunked down my $6.79 for my own import copy of The Clash.

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