Reissue. In their brief but storied career, Boston's La Peste put out only one official record consisting of just two songs. First released in 1978, right between the golden age of East Coast punk and hardcore's takeover in the early 1980's, La Peste's 'Better Off Dead' seven-inch was informed equally by raw '60s rock and roll and the dust-clearing first wave of punk in '75-'76. Hugely influential to post-punk, new wave, and hardcore punk, this seminal single has a rightful place in the hands of any vinyl junkie with a taste for the harder underground offerings of the late '70s. For Fans of Wire, Dead Boys, Zero Boys, Christian Death, Mission Of Burma and Black Flag.