Its fast tempos and politically radical lyrics established the band as a major force in the southern California hardcore scene of the time.

quickly moved away from leftist political subject matter, however, shifting in a gothic rock direction and changing labels to Frontier Records for their full-length album Dance with Me (1981).

This led to a dispute with Posh Boy owner Robbie Fields, who claimed the band owed his label another EP.

The initial contract got flushed down the toilet at Sammy Wong's hotel when we were playing a gig in San Francisco, and we didn't even bother to sign a new one.

[1]The band had already written most of the songs that would comprise their debut album, Dance with Me (1981), but were distrustful of Fields and chose to only give him a few tracks: "We knew Posh Boy was gonna burn us," said Grisham, "but we wanted to put out a record.

[3] Hines mixed the tracks, and they were mastered by Stan Ross at Los Angeles' Gold Star Studios.

[6][7] Grisham credited himself as Jack Greggors on the sleeve, beginning a tradition of using a different pseudonym on each release both to confuse audiences and to hide his true identity from the police.

are fast-tempoed and have angry, leftist lyrics attacking the United States government and the renewal of the military draft.

[11] Reflecting on the EP thirty years later, Grisham recalled that the band already had most of the songs' lyrics written before he joined, and that he probably only penned those to "No Way Out".

"[14] The band soon moved away from ultra-political subject matter, shifting in a gothic rock direction for their full-length album Dance with Me, released later that year through Frontier Records.

"[5] Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, writes that it was "lauded for its political conviction".

[11] He remarked that the political stances of "Property Is Theft" and "Abolish Government / Silent Majority" seem opposing, representing two radically different schools of thought and making it unclear which ideology the band preferred.

[7] Posh Boy combined the two EPs to make the 1987 compilation album Thoughts of Yesterday: 1981–1982 (later re-released through Rhino Records).

[3][7][18] Of the Nitro release, Allmusic's Steve Huey remarked that it "showcases the group's pulverizing early sound".