Double vinyl LP pressing. Songs of Pain is the first album by folk singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, recorded on a simple tape recorder and released on assette. This is the album's first time being pressed on vinyl. Back in the early 1980s, when the punk-rock DIY spirit was going strong, emerging artists found a cheap and efficient way of distributing their music-the homemade cassette. Sometimes very crude and low-fi, the tapes became a hallmark of instant indie cred." The erratic, troubled, and startlingly talented Daniel Johnston was one of the first musicians to really make a name for himself in this medium, and his first two tapes"

Disc 1

1. Grievances
2. A Little Story
3. Joy Without Pleasure
4. Never Relaxed
5. Brainwash
6. Pothead
7. Wicked World

Disc 2

1. Lazy
2. I Save Cigarette Butts
3. Like a Monkey in a Zoo
4. Wicked Will
5. An Idiots End
6. Wild West Virginia

Disc 3

1. Since I Lost My Tooth
2. Urge
3. Living Life
4. Tuna Ketchup
5. Premarital Sex
6. Don't Act Nice
7. Hate Song

Disc 4

1. Lead Belly Was An Outlaw
2. I Love You (I'd Like to Read You Some Poetry)
3. Why Don't You Love Me True
4. I'm a Rambling Kinda Guy
5. Sleepy Lagoon
6. Natalie Queen of Weirton
7. Golly Gee
8. You Need a Reason

Label: Eternal Yip Eye

Catalog: 301

Genre: Rock