Black Flag, Wasted Youth - Cuckoo’s Nest, Costa Mesa, CA, 1981

This poster is for a Black Flag concert in 1981, on this day 21 August at the Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa, California. It was designed by the artist Raymond Pettibon. These punk posters, like this one, were designed to be trash, supposedly, the artist would photocopy a few hundred, staple them to the public planes, let them rot in the sun. Yet these posters have been saved by people who thought the artwork should survive the gigs it advertised. The idea of throwaway art was great, it just didn’t work out in practice.