Wasted Tasters is an album by the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

It contains previously released songs selected from the first seven New Riders albums, which were recorded between 1971 and 1975.

[2] The songs on Wasted Tasters were excerpted from New Riders of the Purple Sage (1971), Powerglide (1972), Gypsy Cowboy (1972), The Adventures of Panama Red (1973), Home, Home on the Road (1974), Brujo (1974), and Oh, What a Mighty Time (1975).

[3] Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead plays pedal steel guitar on the first five tracks.

[4] It depicts, from left to right, David Nelson, John Dawson, Spencer Dryden, Dave Torbert, and Buddy Cage.