Not only was the music awesome, but it came on death records!

"...he made one fatal error: in a cost-cutting move, he pressed the Swiss 45s on inexpensive white vinyl that turned out to contain high levels of both lead and arsenic. Besides being toxic, the vinyl was highly unstable — the labels peeled off almost instantly, and within weeks the discs softened into a moist, turntable-clogging goo."