Pick Your King - Record Store Day Black Friday 2026

This limited Record Store Day Black Friday edition will be available in stores from Friday, 27th November 2026. Remaining stock will be available online from 8am GMT on Saturday, 28th November 2026, while stocks last.

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Limited to 1000 copies. Poison Idea's notoriously brief, punishing debut was released in 1983, a few years after the band formed in Portland, Oregon. Thirteen songs in sixteen minutes. Obviously, not a second wasted. At this juncture, the band consisted of founder and enormous frontman Jerry A., guitarist Tom Roberts – later to be rechristened Pig Champion, due to his porcine build – bassist Chris Tense, and drummer Dean Johnson. Already, Jerry A. sang like a man in the middle of a heart attack, bellowing furiously, frighteningly. In other words, the template was being created for albums to follow. With Pick Your King – a reference to Elvis and Jesus – Poison Idea helped establish the paradigm for aggressive American hardcore punk.