Damaged Goods (record label)

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Damaged Goods is a British independent record label and online shop.

1 History
2 Artists
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Damaged Goods was started in 1988 from a living room in East London by Ian Damaged. The first release was a re-issue of the 1977 single by Slaughter And The Dogs, ‘Where Have All The Bootboys Gone?’. After great reviews in all the UK weeklies it was followed swiftly by the band's debut album Do It Dog Style. Releases by Adam & The Ants, The Killjoys, Pork Dukes, and Snivelling Shits followed.

Originally Damaged Goods was intended to be a re-issue punk label but by 1990 it released current bands with singles by The Roadholders, The Sect, and the debut Manic Street Preachers.

In early 1991 they released their first single by Billy Childish and Thee Headcoats, followed by many more, including the debut Headcoatees single as well. They now work closely with Childish, looking after his entire catalogue.

1992 - 1994, Damaged Goods released the debut single from Helen Love along with one off singles with Atari Teenage Riot, New Bomb Turks, Wat Tyler & Asian Dub Foundation. By 1995 DG was a full time occupation concentrating on the UK garage scene based around Toe Rag studios in London and Slim Chance’s Wild Western Rooms in Archway as well as Indie and Punk releases.

In 1995 they released the debut Holly Golightly album ‘The Good Things’, and she became their biggest artist ever. They have released ten albums by Golightly.

Over the next ten years they have done records with J Church, TV Personalities, Armitage Shanks, Honeyrider, Revillos Mikabomb, and Priscillas.

They have now released over 280 different records on vinyl, and have the full catalogue available digitally via iTunes etc.

As of 2007, they have added to their list The Buff Medways, The Buzzcocks, Pete Molinari (Folk Blues from Medway), and The Wolfmen (Marco and Chris from Adam and the Ants new band).

2007 started with a new album from Billy Childish and his new band The Musicians Of The British Empire and an album from Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs. Pete Molinari is recording in ToeRag for a possible new album in the summer. They've also got classic re-issues from Psykik Volts, Thee Headcoatees, Johnny Moped, Thee Headcoat Sect, Milkshakes, Rudi, and O’Level.