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There was this CD I used to have.  I lost it, but later it came up in my friend's truck. Shockingly enough he had apparently stole it from me.  The disc was "Dischord 1981: Year in7 Inch".  It featured Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Government Issue, Teen Idles, and State of Alert. I had bought it at this hole-in-the-wall records shop (the kind you used to find before Circuit City and Best Buy came along). I loved this CD because of the wide variety of old school bands it featured.

Coming straight from Texas and featuring Mike Wiebe (Riverboat Gamblers), Mark Ryan (Marked Men), Chris Pulliam (The Reds), and Mike Throneberry (Marked Men, who on this album replaces Jeff Burke, also of the Marked Men), the band has been very busy since their release on Dirtnap. The album itself features garage sounding punk rhythms and short catchy tunes - songs like Hibernate, Tokyo is Burning Down, Not Enough for Me, They Fall Apart, Outsider, The Strange One and many more wiry tracks are sure to leave the audience waiting for more! High Tension Wires is not a bad album.  It's something that I would definitely listen to but when it comes down to it, I might not shell out the money for in that hole-in-the-wall records shop.