Cheap Sex

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Origin	Southern California, California
Country	United States of America
Years active	2002–2007
Genres	Punk rock
Labels	Punkcore Records
Members	Gabe Johnny O. Mike Virus Brock Phil DeVille
Past members	Derek Dolls Jordan PBR Chris Blitz Chance
Website(s)	[1]

Cheap Sex was a punk rock band formed in December 2002 and based in San Diego, California.

They formed out of frustration towards the San Diego underground scene. In their eyes, it was filled with too much emo and pop punk and not enough hardcore punk music. Soon after they formed, they recorded a five-song demo EP. They were quickly signed to Punk Core Records and recorded their full-length debut album. It was titled Launch Off to War and released in July 2003.

Cheap Sex has been reasonably successful, sharing the stage with bands like 999, Lower Class Brats and Agent Orange. After playing several shows on the West Coast, the band made its East Coast debut at the 3 day Vive Le Punk festival at CBGB OMFUG in New York. There they shared the stage with The Adicts and Abrasive Wheels, among others, receiving quite a response.

The band performed in July at the Wasted 2004 festival in the UK (formerly known as Holidays in the Sun) with bands such as Discharge and Broken Bones.

In April 2004 they recorded their second full-length release for Punk Core Records, entitled Headed for a Breakdown. It was released October 5 2004. They toured extensively during that summer, playing along the east coast with labelmates Lower Class Brats.

Finally, the newest album recorded by Cheap Sex, Written in Blood, was released on June 6th of 2006

Punk Core Records is working on putting out a singles and raraties collection by Cheap Sex sometime in 2007.

On March 1st, 2007 Cheap Sex's past guitarist, Chris Wick, hung himself due to struggling with heroin addiction and the death of his mother in 2004. On March 15th, 2007 Cheap Sex sent out a bulletin via Myspace stating that they would be breaking up and a final show was in the works.