Better Youth Organization Records (BYO) is a defunct Los Angeles, California based independent

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record label created by Shawn and Mark Stern, two of the three brothers of the California punk rock band Youth Brigade (the third being Adam Stern who plays bass but does not run BYO).

Aim and history

BYO aims to promote punk and other alternative youth cultures in a positive light. BYO released records by 7 Seconds, Agression, and SNFU in the 1980s, as well as

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, The Unseen,

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, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, Automatic 7 and The Briefs. It also started the '' BYO Split Series'' of full-length records shared by bands from other labels, such as

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/ Youth Brigade,

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and

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/ One Man Army. Before BYO became a record label they started as a fanzine, in 1981, named after their namesake. The zine intended to tackle the issues of police brutality and the negative views towards punks and the punk scene. As of late-2013, the label is defunct.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Byo Records American independent record labels Punk record labels Record labels established in 1982 1982 establishments in California

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