The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape

CD released in 1987 on Blast First (BFFP23), and 1992 on Touch and Go (TG94) and AuGoGo (ANDA156)

This is the disc to get--9 out of the 10 tracks on Atomizer, including Kerosene and a great verion of Cables (two of their greatest songs), and the complete Headache/Heartbeat combo. What more could a guy ask for? Other than liner notes that is...

reviews:

I tried to take out this other CD from my player so I could give this one a listen and the stoopid opening mechanism thingamajig wouldn't work. I tried and tried to open it cause I spent fifteen lousy bucks on this Big Black CD and I really wanted to listen to it so I called my brother and he came over to my apartment and did some magic tricks to it and we got it open and my fucking CD wasn't in there I swear to god, that fuckin' machine ATE my CD bones and all. Shit, pretty soon they're gonna come to life and take over and we're all gonna become slaves and then where would we be... Anyway, the Big Black CD has the Headache EP, Heartbeat EP and the great Atomizer LP all rolled into one. Beware.
--Joy, Flipside 55

liner notes:

YOU PUSSIES CAN ALL SUCK OUR COCKS

This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first generation digital music system, contains all-analog masters. Compact discs are quite durable, this being their only advantage over real music media. You should take every opportunity to scratch them, fingerprint them, and eat egg and bacon sandwiches off them. Don't worry about their longevity, as Philips will pronounce them obsolete when the next phase of the market-squeezing technology bonanza begins.

disc:

When in five years, this remarkable achievment in the advancement of fidelity is obsolete and unplayable on any "modern" equipment, remember, in 1971, the 8-track tape was the state of the art.