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Roadkill

Capital Punishment

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Capitol Punishment's album Roadkill. Available here on Red Colored LP, Standard LP and CD.

If I were to tell you that a band of NYC teenagers who met in 1979 decided to form a band influenced by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Eno, Chrome and released a privately pressed record, it would be enough to pique your interest. When you find out the band consisted of a future Supreme Court Justice for Arizona, a Professor of Slavic Studies, a Musician / Documentarian whose family built the Brooklyn Bridge, and an A-list world-famous actor the story goes from being about another rare, privately pressed recording that’s been re-discovered, into something that’s pretty incredible. Captured Tracks is thrilled to announce the reissue of Capital Punishment’s 1982 sole LP Roadkill. For a band of high school weirdos who actually got their shit together enough to make a completely uncommercial album with no means to sell it shows a lot of determination, persistence and perhaps insanity. But it’s always those kinds of weirdos who go on to do great things – just ask Judge Peter Swann, Professor Peter Zusi, Kriss Roebling and Ben Stiller. “I was in a band in high school - it was called Capital Punishment, and it was sort of a post punk-neo-goth-urban - experimental band... I was sort of the Ringo of the band.” - Ben Stiller on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

LP+ - Red Colored LP.

LP - Standard LP.

CD - Standard CD.

Label
Captured Tracks
Genre
New Wave & Post Punk
Artist
Capital Punishment
Released
09/14/18
Catalogue Number
CT277cd
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CD $13.99
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Label
Captured Tracks
Genre
New Wave & Post Punk
Artist
Capital Punishment
Released
09/14/18
Catalogue Number
CT277cd

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