Hyped to Death, Teenline, Homework, Messthetics, etc. present the best of indie punk, powerpop and DIY from the late '70s into the first few years of the 1980s. ...with brilliant sound and plenty of handy info at a reasonable price.

• H2D draws on a huge vinyl archive ­plus a small mountain of cassette-only and unreleased material provided by generous H2D bands...
• Each of these CD series is compiled alphabetically, letter-by-letter, with full discographical information --not to mention gratuitous essays on regional scenes, the music business and human (and musician) nature in general.
• Liner-notes are continuously updated on-line (and in print) with links to web-pages, fan-club sites, legitimate reissues by H2D bands and anything else that bands are up to now.
• We're working hard to make H2D as band-friendly as possible: hopefully this ends up being the best deal for everyone involved... (Hey bands!)
• H2D is all digital: no more scratches, tape hiss, pops or clicks: the sound is better than the records themselves! And because we think you're smart enough to turn up the volume yourselves, H2D has maintained the full dynamic range of the original vinyl (or tape masters) without the crushing T-waves and over-compression that ruin most conventional CDs. Speaking of which,
• We're CD-R, and proud of it. Most record-labels spend a truly depressing amount of time and energy worrying about how to sell boxes and boxes of older releases in order to come up with the cash (or the storage space) to bring a new release or two to market. Someday soon the world will be ready to consume these musical treasures in more respectable quantities, but for now, CD-R is the only way to keep our focus on the music.
• And not only can H2D upgrade sound and packaging "on the fly," but the quality control is better than on conventional CD. In four years, we've had less than a dozen defective returns (and on those rare occasions, we'll always give you a little something extra).
  

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