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bass Chuck Dukowski
drums Robo
engineer Francis Buckley
engineer [assistant] Chuck Vogt
guitar Greg Ginn
guitar, vocals Dez Cadena
lacquer cut by John Stachowiak
photography by [cover photos] Ed Colver
producer Black Flag
producer, engineer Spot
vocals Henry Rollins
Phonographic Copyright (p) Unicorn Records, Inc
Phonographic Copyright (p) SST Records
Recorded At Unicorn Studios, Hollywood, CA
Mastered At Greg Lee Processing
First pressing is this issue (MCA logo on rear, anti-parent sticker on some, UNI/4 matrices).
First version recut/reissue is here: Damaged (No MCA logo, Kendun matrices).
Second version recut/reissue is here: Damaged (no MCA logo, Neo-Gelatinous and S-9375/6 matrices).

MCA Records (with which Unicorn Records had a distribution deal) distribution chief Al Bergamo announced that the company would not distribute this record, deeming that It just didn't seem to have any redeeming social value and because, as a parent with two children, he found it an anti-parent record. Damaged was eventually released by Unicorn through an independent distributor. Later, after Unicorn's bankruptcy and almost years of litigation during which Black Flag was forbidden to release any record, they re-released and distributed it through Greg Ginn's own SST Records.
This record cost Black Flag $8,000 (USD) to produce. 25,000 pressed.
Lyric sheet was available by mail.

Some early copies released with a sticker stating As A Parent..., I Found It An Anti-Parent Record... on the back of the jacket, covering up the MCA distribution logo.

Some copies with the anti-parent sticker that were sent out for radio promotion have an additional sticker on the front of the cover stating:

Recommended For Airplay
T.V. Party
Rise Above

℗ 1981 Unicorn Records, Inc. (on anti-parent and promo stickers)
℗ 1981 SST Records (on side B label)

Runouts are etched.
Matrix / Runout: UNI 4-9502-A-RE L7485 IIII COMIN AT YA (Runout side A, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: UNI 4-9502-B THE WHOLE GELATINOUS THING L-7485-X (Runout side B, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: UNI/4-9502-A-RE JcS L-7485 IIII COMIN AT YA (Runout side A, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: UNI 4/9502-B JcS THE WHOLE GELATINOUS THING ʘ L-7485-X (Runout side B, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: UNI/4-A-RE (scratched out) UNI/4- 9502-A-RE jcs L-7485 IIII Comin At Ya (Runout side A, variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: UNI 4-9502-B jcs THE WHOLE GELATINOUS THING ʘ L-7485-X (Runout side B, variant 3)