Re-releases
T.S.O.L. had released their eponymously titled debut EP through Posh Boy Records in 1981, then moved to Frontier Records for their full-length album Dance with Me (1981). This caused a dispute with Posh Boy, who claimed the band had not honored their commitment to record a second EP for the label. Several years later, Posh Boy and the four original members of T.S.O.L. (Grisham and Barnes had left the band in late 1983) worked out a settlement in which the members received back payments of royalties from the label, and Posh Boy purchased the master recordings and publishing rights to Weathered Statues. Posh Boy combined Weathered Statues with the debut EP to make the 1987 compilation album Thoughts of Yesterday: 1981–1982 (later re-released through Rhino Records). Nitro Records purchased the master tapes from Posh Boy in 1997, remastered them, and re-released the two EPs as the compilation T.S.O.L. / Weathered Statues. Of the Nitro release, Allmusic's Steve Huey remarked that it "showcases the group's pulverizing early sound".
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