Punk 45

Punk 45 is a revelatory guide to hundreds and hundreds of original seven-inch record cover sleeve designs--visual artifacts found at the heart of the most radical and anarchistic musical movement of the twentieth century.

Spurred by the Desperate Bicycles' rallying cry 'It was easy, it was cheap--go and do it!' and Mark Perry's 'Here are three chords.

Now form a band,' thousands of new groups emerged in the wake of the Pistols, between 1976 and 1980.

This politicized do-it-yourself ethic was applied to design as much as it was to music, and these lo-fo record sleeves declared politics ranging from anarchism to socialism, anticonsumerism, feminism and more.