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Flux Of Pink Indians - The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks [SDL 13 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC] These Indians were an anarcho-punk band and came from Bishop's Stortford, a quiet and pleasant market town on the Hertfordshire / Essex border - an affluent area of the UK and hardly a bastion of hardship and despair. During the late seventies and early eighties, the UK was a troubled country, inequality and poverty, fueled by the confrontational policies of the government led to strikes and riots. The country was also at war in the South Atlantic with Argentina. Whilst the original punk ethos was dead by 1978, the genuine second-wave of punk was anarcho-punk, led by bands such as Crass and a polar opposite to the far right-wing tendencies of other bands who adopted the "punk" genre. In the mid-eighties, then chief of Manchester Police, James Anderton (god's cop) ordered that his officers raid record stores and seize records by Crass and others under the Obscene Publications Ac...