Damaged Goods

Credited to the band, with words by Jon King. The Fast Product single, FAST 5, runs 3:34 and the album version 3:29; it was recorded in June 1978 at Cargo in Rochdale, produced by Fast Product's Bob Last and the band, with John Brierley engineering, and did not chart in the UK. King said the starting point was a discount supermarket slogan in Leeds. Wikipedia describes sexual politics with a double entendre at its center, and Treble connects ideas of love and commerce. The sleeve was black sans-serif type on deep pink, similar to the Vorticist magazine Blast. NME ranked it 46th among the 100 best tracks of the seventies, AllMusic's Tom Maginnis called it a masterful blend of sexual politics with propelling, melodious post-punk angst, and Paul Lester called it arguably the first post-punk record.

Covers include the Hotrats (2009), and IDLES and La Roux, on the 2021 tribute The Problem of Leisure; Massive Attack recorded one as a working title for an album, unreleased. Spin reported it played late in a Toronto show in 2011 with the crowd singing along, and the Mancunion called it a club staple. We did not obtain a setlist count, and our upload is either the single or the album version, which we cannot distinguish.