CIRCULATION ZERO

one last thing Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and credit your source.At the very least, throw in a #circulationzero hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use.

CIRCULATION ZERO

one last thing Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and credit your source.At the very least, throw in a #circulationzero hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use.

CIRCULATION ZERO

one last thing Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and credit your source.At the very least, throw in a #circulationzero hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use.

CIRCULATION ZERO

one last thing Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and credit your source.At the very least, throw in a #circulationzero hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use.

CIRCULATION ZERO

one last thing Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and credit your source.At the very least, throw in a #circulationzero hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use.

CIRCULATION ZERO

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CIRCULATION ZERO

one last thing Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and credit your source.At the very least, throw in a #circulationzero hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use.

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ABOUT CIRCULATION ZERO The beauty of digitization really sinks in at 30,000 feet. In-flight woes — that seat leaned to within an inch of your face, the unshowered over-sharer, the wailing toddler — all fade with Claude Bessy rants and Melanie Nissen pics in view. Several years ago, a collector comrade assembled a complete run of _Slash_ magazine (with a little help from me) and had scanned every last newsprint page and had sent 'em my way (thanks, Jeff). That small kindness of sharing such a sizable effort would prove to be a turning point. While complete runs of fanzines like _Touch & Go_ and _We Got Power_ have been collected into awesome anthologies, many pioneering punk rags — the large format, newsprint ones in particular — are available only to dedicated collectors or packrats who've kept 'em since way back when. Not infrequently I've talked to fanzine creators and contributors who didn't even hang onto copies of their own publications. While assembling some sets is doable with some moxie and spending cash, several runs border on the impossible even if you've got the drive and dough to acquire 'em. Digital editions are the only way most people will encounter these punk rags of yesteryear. Circulation Zero is an experiment, my attempt to "give back" by parlaying the preservation of some beloved punk publications into a greater good. My hope is that the original creators will not only enjoy seeing their work resuscitated but will also appreciate the fact that their work is helping generate donations to worthy causes. The site is also an attempt to answer some questions that bounce around in my head. Are collections better off inside institutional libraries or in the hands of collectors? Should ancient in-fighting prevent bringing the punk print hey-day to a new generation? Should eggshell walking over copyright issues cock-block oldsters from taking a whirl on the wayback machine? Can a world chock full of entitled interweb denizens be trusted to donate even a pittance in exchange for a treasure trove of never-before-digitized fanzines? I don't know the answers but hopefully Circulation Zero will prove my hunches correct.

Dig in!

Ryan Richardson

Austin, Texas

DOWNLOADS

While people love the "flip page" effect on my RockScenester

and Star1973

sites, iPad and mobile phone users get left out in the cold thanks to the Flash-based animation. After originally uploading a zip file of JPEGs here on Circulation Zero, a consensus formed that a PDF would more useful. Instead of simply suggesting improvements, two guys just up and created PDFs and sent 'em over. I like people who get things done, so kudos to Nathan Klayman and especially Kip Jackson for refining the first foray. The downloads are now single, searchable PDFs which no longer require unzipping! These are fairly large downloads which eat up a lot of bandwidth. Circulation Zero shout-outs on popular sites inevitably result in a new crush of traffic, longer waits and slower load times on my other sites. Because of this, I've had to move the downloads to a third-party site which is hopefully better equipped for the occasional stampede. KEEP IN MIND SOME CONTENT IS NSFW! While I prefer to digitize complete runs, some publications stuck around for a long time. In those instances, I've picked a reasonable stopping point based mostly on when my fascination precipitously declines heading into the mid-80s. Despite my being several years too late and a couple thousand miles away, the early LA punk scene enthralled my teenage brain thirty years ago, and the obsession shows no signs of abating. Might as well start with the best...

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_SLASH_

Los Angeles, CA

1977 - 1980

29 issues

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_NO MAG_

Los Angeles, CA

1978 - 1985

14 issues

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_DAMAGE_

San Francisco, CA

1979 - 1981

13 issues

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_DRY_

New York, NY

1979 - 1982

14 issues

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_BOSTON ROCK_

Boston, MA

1980 - 1984

first 50 issues

DOING YOUR PART

Circulation Zero relies on the honor system. I've left the keys in the ignition. Take 'er for a test drive and decide what your experience was worth and then donate to one of the charities listed below. My hope, of course, is that you'll be as psyched as I was to browse these mags for the first time and that a commensurate donation will make its way to Doctors Without Borders or Electronic Frontier Foundation . These organizations are reputable, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits which means your donations are tax

deductible.

IF YOU LIVE WITHIN THE US, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU DONATE USING THE LINKS BELOW. By sending money through the PayPal Giving Fund links provided, every last penny of your donation reaches the organization's coffers; that is not the case with other fundraising venues or even standard PayPal donation buttons. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTERS AND DO-GOODERS, please locate your country on this DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS LIST and follow the "Donate" links. At present, I have no means to track contributions generated through Circulation Zero, but I'd love to get an idea. When you've made a donation, please take a few seconds to shoot an email my way and let me how much you sent to which organization: me@ryanrichardson.com. Knowing my efforts helped make some small difference will spur me into further scanning and sharing — _and trust me, there's a whole lot more where these came from_.

ONE LAST THING...

Inevitably many of y'all will bombard the usual sharing and social media sites with images found here. Be my guest but do the right thing and _credit your source_. At the very least, throw in a #CIRCULATIONZERO hashtag so others can find their way here and contribute, too. The scans on Circulation Zero are intended for personal enjoyment and research, not for commercial use. The background graphic above is a detail from the Insults "Population Zero" picture sleeve designed by Ron Rat in 1979.