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There’s Something About Ben Stiller’s Punk Band. The Secret Life of Capital Punishment.

By Riot Fest / October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 / Record Store Day

Unless you’re Avenged Sevenfold drummer Brooks Wackerman or Radkey, chances are likely that the band you played in as a teenager amounted to absolutely nothing (but a good time).

The same can’t be said for Ben Stiller’s punk band of yore, Capital Punishment. Earlier this year, Rolling Stone announced that the band’s reecently unearthed LP, Roadkill, was being reissued by Captured Tracks. You’d think that’d be all of it, however Record Store Day just announced its 2018 Black Friday release schedule, and it includes new music from Stiller and his merry band of pranksters. This Is Capital Punishment is a 12″ EP that comes out Black Friday (November 23, 2018), and features four new tracks, plus a re-recorded version of Roadkill‘s “Confusion.”

Here’s an artist’s rendering of Stiller’s parents reaction to the band practicing in their garage:

This is the first new music from the band in 35 years. In the years since the band (that never played even one show) broke up and the members moved on to various adultings: one is a documentarian, another is a Czech literature professor in London, one is a justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, and the other became Zoolander.

Here’s Roadkill in all its glory, and it’s followed by a list of 35 other sweet releases you may want to keep your eye on come Black Friday (including quantities).



A Perfect Circle So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish 7″ (5,000)
Bauhaus Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape LP (1,300)
The Breeders Safari EP 12″ (2,000)
Cheap Trick The Epic Archive Vol. 2 (1980-83) 2xLP (1,100)
Alice Cooper Live From the Astroturf LP (3,000)
Chris Cornell When Bad Does Good 7″ (5,000)
Dead Kennedys Iguana Studios Rehearsal Sessions LP (2,000)
Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Picture Disc LP (5,000)
Dio Holy Diver Live at 35 12″ (3,000)
Flamin’ Groovies The Vaillencourt Fountain 9.19.79 LP (950)
The Flaming Lips The Mushroom Tapes LP (2,500)
Garbage with John Doe & Exene Cervenka Destroying Angels 7″ (3,000)
The Germs What We Do Is Secret LP (2,250)
Guns N’ Roses Shadow of Your Love 7″ (7,000)
Iggy & The Stooges Rare Power LP (3,000)
Joan Jett Bad Reputation Film Soundtrack LP (3,000)
Judas Priest Rocka Rolla LP (2,400)
Lookout! Records The LookOuting! 2xLP (1,000)
Manchester Orchestra The Black Miles Demos 12″ (2,000)
Bob Marley & The Wailers Catch A Fire LP (3,000)
Paul McCartney I Don’t Know b/w Come On To Me 7″ (5,000)
Tom Morello The Atlas Underground (Instrumentals) 2xLP (1,800)
Rage Against the Machine Live & Rare 2xLP (5,000)
Ramones Live In Glasgow December 19, 1977 2xLP (4,000)
Adam Sandler What the Hell Happened to Me? 2xLP (3,500)
The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright Picture Disc LP (1,000)
Soul Asylum The Twin/Tone Years 5xLP (1,500)
Sublime Greatest Hits LP (5,000)
Talking Heads Remain In Light LP (5,500)
UK Subs Sub Mission: The Best of UK Subs 1982-1998 2xLP (450)
Unwritten Law Unwritten Christmas 7″ (2,500)
Violent Femmes Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes 2xLP (2,500)
Weezer Africa (Shaped Picture Disc) 10″ (3,000)
Hank Williams The First Recordings, 1938 7″ (3,500)
The Zombies Odessey and Oracle Picture Disc LP (1,800)
Ben Stiller Black Friday record store day

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