Free Stickers with Every Order!

Collected over decades, Free Stickers with Every Order: A History of Hardcore Stickers is the first book dedicated entirely to the visual and cultural legacy of hardcore punk stickers. Spanning North America from the early 1980s to 2024, the book documents a fleeting and affordable medium that helped define the DIY ethos of the scene.

Pairing full-color archival material with firsthand interviews, this deluxe hardcover preserves rare and often long-lost sticker artifacts from a medium never meant to last. Pasted on lampposts, venue walls, record bins, and street signs, stickers carried hardcore’s values far beyond the shows themselves.

The Deluxe Edition is presented as a hardcover book and is limited to a first edition of 1,000 copies. Free stickers with every order!

About the Book

Stickers were cheap to produce and easy to distribute. Their immediacy made them powerful tools of promotion, protest, identity, and community. Within hardcore, stickers became a visual language that extended the scene beyond shows and records and into everyday life.

Rather than aiming for encyclopedic completeness, Free Stickers with Every Order presents a carefully edited archive. Many sticker artifacts no longer exist, and their absence shapes the scope of the book. What remains is a focused and honest time capsule of hardcore’s visual language, values, and community, told by the people who lived it.

Featuring interviews with members of 7 Seconds, Quicksand, Earth Crisis, Have Heart, American Nightmare, Integrity, Agnostic Front, and more, the book documents a vital but previously undocumented part of hardcore history.

Credits & Production

Compiled and written by Thomas Rackow.
Layout and graphic design by André Leigl.
Archival material collected from personal collections, bands, and scene contributors.
Published by Iodine Recordings.