Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes is hardcore punk band Poison Idea's second EP. It was released in 1985 through Fatal Erection Records.
The artwork, coupled with the title, is a joke at the expense of guitarist Pig Champion, as it is a picture of his extensive record collection.
Critical reception Trouser Press wrote that "the blind rage of songs like 'Die on Your Knees' and 'Don’t Like It Here' ... is as formidable as pre-domestication Iggy." AllMusic wrote that the EP "fine-tune[ed] the band's blistering sound and fatalistic worldview."
Track listing Original EP "A.A." - 1:32 "Legalize Freedom" - 1:44 "Cold Comfort" - 1:14 "Thorn in My Side" - 2:00 "Rubber Husband" - 1:30 "Rich Get Richer" - 1:25 "Don't Like It Here" - 1:50 "Time to Go" - 2:03
Reissue track list "A.A." - 1:32 "Legalize Freedom" - 1:44 "Cold Comfort" - 1:14 "Typical" - 1:54 "Thorn in My Side" - 2:00 "Laughing Boy" - 1:41 "Rubber Husband" - 1:30 "I Gotta Right" (Iggy and the Stooges Cover) - 3:18 "Rich Get Richer" - 1:25 "Don't Like It Here" - 1:50 "Die on Your Knees" - 2:45 "Time to Go" - 2:03
Poison Idea's Record Collectors are Still Pretentious Assholes Challenge The expanded reissue of the album released in 2022 was packaged with a poster listing 81 of the records pictured on the cover, with a challenge to the listener to collect all of the records themselves:
The Adverts - One Chord Wonders Agent Orange - Your Mother Sucks Cocks in Hell... Angelic Upstarts - The Murder of Liddle Towers Anti Cimex - Raped Ass Antidote - Thou Shalt Not Kill Anti-Nowhere League - Streets of London Anti-Nowhere League - We Are...The League Avengers - We Are the One B.G.K. - White Male Dumbinance Bad Religion - Bad Religion Bags - Survive Battalion of Saints - Fighting Boys Battalion of Saints - Second Coming Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown The Blood - Stark Raving Normal The Blood - Megalomania The Boys - First Time Cani- Guai a voi! Charles Manson - Lie: The Love and Terror Cult The Child Molesters - Wir lieben die jugendlich Mädchen Cockney Rejects - Greatest Hits Volume 1 Crime - Hot Wire My Heart The Damned - The Black Album The Damned - New Rose Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer The Dickies - Banana Splits The Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley Elvis Presley - It's Midnight E.A.T.E.R. - Doomsday Troops The Fartz - Because This Fuckin' World Stinks... The Fix - Vengeance Frites Modern - Veel, Vet, Goor en Duur Germs - Forming Germs - Lexicon Devil Germs - (GI) Johnny Moped - Cycledelic Kangrena - Terrorismo sonoro Kohu-63 - Valtaa ei loistoa Legionaire’s Disease Band - Downtown The Meatmen - Blüd Sausage The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen...and You Suck!! Menace - Screwed Up Mentors - Live at the Whisky / Cathay De Grande The Misfits - Cough/Cool The Misfits - Bullet The Misfits - Horror Business The Misfits - Beware Motörhead - Motörhead Necros - Necros New York Dolls - New York Dolls The Nikoteens - Aloah-Oehh Noncens - 6 låtars Out of Our Heads - Riot Quick and the Dead - Another Violent Night Rough- Torino è la mia città S.O.A. - No Policy The Saints - This Perfect Day Sex Pistols - Indecent Exposure Skitslickers - GBG 1982 Skrewdriver - All Skrewed Up Skrewdriver - Voice of Britain The Subhumans - The Subhumans J. D. Sumner - Elvis Has Left the Building Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs The Teen Idles - Minor Disturbance Tesco Vee and The Meatkrew - Dutch Hercules Toy Dolls - Dig That Groove Baby Último Resorte - Cementerio caliente United Mutation - Fugitive Family Upright Citizens - Make the Future Mine & Yours Various artists - Flex Your Head Various artists - Tooth and Nail Various artists - Yes L.A. Various artists - Oi! The Album Various artists - What? Records Big Boys / The Dicks - Live at Raul's Club The Faith / Void - Faith / Void Split Wretched / Indigesti - Wretched/Indigesti Youth Brigade - Sound & Fury
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Personnel Jerry A. - Vocals Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts - Guitar Chris Tense - Bass Dean Johnson - Drums
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