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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    • Limited edition PINK/BLACK SPLATTER vinyl edition of the 1985 full-length debut album from Huntington Beach punk legends, The Vandals!

    • Includes the classic "Ladykiller" plus several more fan favorites!

    • Produced by legendary producer Thom Wilson (TSOL, Adolescents, Offspring)

    Includes unlimited streaming of When In Rome (Do As The Vandals) Plus 3 Bonus Tracks via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $29 USD or more 

     

  • Limited Edition 12" Vinyl SPLATTER
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of When In Rome (Do As The Vandals) Plus 3 Bonus Tracks via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition 12" Yellow Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of When In Rome (Do As The Vandals) Plus 3 Bonus Tracks via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is the classic LP on CD, with download.

    Includes unlimited streaming of When In Rome (Do As The Vandals) Plus 3 Bonus Tracks via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $11 USD

     

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Music by Joe Escalante, Lyrics by Nils Ackermann. Vocals by Chalmer Lumary. The character at the beginning with the English accent is of course Stevo. He was doing that character all night in the studio (yes these records were pretty much tracked in one stretch.
We asked the label to place the character throughout the album for maximum effect. This was probably a bad idea so someone made the decision to just throw two of his little episodes right before the last song.

lyrics

I live in the land of the freeways
Home of the smog and traffic
The sun and the air
The mountains and sea
Streams and palm trees

The valleys...
The canyons...
The mountains...
The beaches...

Hollywood, downtown, the valley
Are all places you should see
The city at night, the city so bright
a short time away a campfire sight

The missions...
The mansions...
The farmlands...
Punk rock bands...

People come from all over
to work and live in the sun
It's always so nice
my own paradise

The desert , the snow
So many places to go

The people...
The places...
The weather...
The faces...

That's for me

credits

from When In Rome (Do As The Vandals) Plus 3 Bonus Tracks, released December 19, 2013
Chalmer Lumary does the lead vocal duties on this one, and Joe busted out his trumpet. Nils Ackermann chimes in on the woodblock.

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The Vandals Los Angeles, California

This is the Vandals, a punk rock band . from Orange County, California that started up in the early 1980s and for some reason still has some shows to play. (See below).

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