Their early works were made up of hardcore punk, and attracted the attention of Joe Carducci as he was starting to work with legendary punk label SST Records.

While the album had been recorded in early 1983, the album's release was delayed for a year by SST.

The discovery was possible due to the infrared observation capabilities of the SST because at visible wavelengths the stars are completely obscured by interstellar dust in the Serpens cloud.

SST went on to release a number of albums by other hardcore artists, and was described by Azerrad as " easily the most influential and popular underground indie of the Eighties.

Most of the band's material was released on Ginn's independent label, SST Records.

However, according to longtime SST employee Joe Carducci the " Anti-Parent " statement was not the real reason for MCA's refusing to distribute Damaged ; Carducci reported that Unicorn Records was so poorly managed and so deeply in debt that MCA stood to lose money by distributing the album, regardless of its content.

This was the beginning of a legal dispute that would, for several years, disallow Black Flag from using their own name on any record after Damaged was released on SST Records and a copy of the " Anti-Parent " statement was placed on the album's cover.

1983 found Black Flag with fresh songs and a new direction, but without a bass player, and embroiled in a legal dispute over distribution due to SST's issuing Damaged ( Ginn argued that since MCA was no longer involved, the Unicorn deal was not legally binding, while Unicorn disagreed and sued SST and Black Flag ).

SST Records, an independent American record label that was initially founded to release Black Flag ’ s debut single, released recordings by influential bands such as Bad Brains, The Minutemen, Descendents, Meat Puppets, and Hüsker Dü.

SST was a mail-order business that sold modified World War II surplus radio equipment.

Sonic Youth mentioned SST often in interviews and in music writer Michael Azerrad's estimation, " seemed to be actively campaigning to get signed to the indie powerhouse "; in turn, Sonic Youth was instrumental in getting SST to sign Dinosaur Jr. Gerard Cosloy, owner of Dinosaur Jr's previous label Homestead Records, said, " SST was the label everyone wanted to be on.

Everyone's favorite bands were on the label ; SST was funnier and cooler and it also had the machinery.

SST's reputation was damaged severely when sound collage group Negativland fought a long legal battle with SST in the wake of its sampling lawsuit over their notorious " cover " of U2's hit " I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ", on the 1991 U2 single.

The case was settled when Ginn and SST agreed to fully release most of Negativland's masters ( mainly their Over The Edge series of cassettes ) in exchange for completing work on a live album that had been planned long before their legal battles began, as well as keeping Negativland's three SST releases on the label for a short period ( the copyright in those has since reverted to Negativland ).

The LP Kill From The Heart was released in 1983 on SST Records and These People followed in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles.

), were released the same year on Mute Records, followed by tours of Europe ( Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Scandinavia, UK ) and a 35 date tour of America where their album was released by SST Records.

* SS, SSP, SST, SSZ and NS class blimps, convoy escort blimps used by the UK in World War I.

SST is designed to improve one's ability to self-regulate and attain personal goals by helping define goals, identify the steps needed to attain them, identify the barriers that are preventing progress, and create a plan for how the goals may be achieved.

( Many of these earlier stories had previously been published by SST Records as Selfishness, with illustrations by Raymond Pettibon.

As well, SST released some albums by Negativland, Soundgarden, and, for a short period, Sonic Youth.

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn.

SST initially focused on releasing material by hardcore punk groups from Southern California.

As many of the bands on the label sought to expand beyond the limitations of the hardcore genre, SST released many key albums that were instrumental in the development of American alternative rock, including releases by the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, the Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. After a peak release schedule in the late 1980s, SST began venturing into jazz releases.

" SST Records released the music recorded by Ginn's band ( now named Black Flag ) as the Nervous Breakdown EP in January 1979.

SST struck a deal with MCA Records to co-release Damaged on Unicorn Records, a smaller label distributed by MCA.

Despite its legal troubles, SST continued to release records by artists including Minutemen, Saccharine Trust, and Meat Puppets.

Ginn and SST proceeded to reissue some of New Alliance's key releases-albums by Descendents, Hüsker Dü's Land Speed Record, and all of The Minutemen's non-SST releases-on SST.

In 1987 SST released over 80 titles, a " ridiculous amount even by major label standards ", according to Azerrad.

While SST believed Zen Arcade would be a sizable underground hit, pressings of over 5, 000 copies were unknown territory for the label, so it erred on the side of caution and did not print over that number in its initial pressing.

After signing with SST Records in 1980, Minutemen began touring constantly, releasing a number of albums along the way.

Despite the preference for flying boats and seaplanes, non-rigid blimps were also developed for anti-submarine patrol, the airships being built in a number of types, such as the SS class, the SST class, the SSP class, and the SSZ class.

* A106 Boeing SST ( reference number later assigned to DC-3 )

Greg played both guitar and bass, Andy Batwinas ( who had engineer a number of albums for SST in the 1990s ) provided keyboards and percussion, and the drums were handled by Moore, who now performs under the pseudonym " Drummer ".

Generally there is a method of selecting the order in which the barrels of an SST shotgun fire ; commonly this is done through manipulation of the safety, pushing to one side to select top barrel first and the other side to select bottom barrel first.

As numerous bands from the seminal SST label and other kindred punk-oriented indies had before them, Meat Puppets grappled with the decision to switch to a major label.

" Pettibon also sold pamphlet books of his work through SST, with titles such as Tripping Corpse, New Wave of Violence, and The Bible, the Bottle, and the Bomb, and did artwork for other SST acts such as the Minutemen.

After the release of the album in 1987, the band began working the American indie circuit, playing shows across the US with other SST bands such as fIREHOSE and Meat Puppets.

The fourth phase imposed the effects of a 50 % slowdown in the Thermohaline circulation by imposing SST changes in the north Atlantic derived from other runs.

Flip Your Wig, like Hüsker Dü's other SST releases, has never been remastered for improved sound on compact disc.

The only other SST to enter service was the Tu-144.

In 2005, Mascis put his Fog project on hold in order to tend to other business, mainly the reformation of the original Dinosaur Jr. lineup, to coincide with the re-release on the Merge label of the first three Dinosaur Jr. albums that had previously been on Homestead and SST.

In a June 2005 interview Mould expressed interest in reissuing Hüsker Dü's SST releases on Granary, but the other former Hüskers, Grant Hart and Greg Norton, have so far been reluctant to sign off and allow Mould to take control of the SST Hüsker tapes on behalf of the band.