Free Stickers With Every Order: A History Of Hardcore Stickers by Thomas Rackow

IODINE RECORDINGS • APRIL 2026
HARDCOVER | 250 PAGES | 10" x 1" x 10"

Collected over decades, Free Stickers with Every Order: A History of Hardcore Stickers is the first book dedicated entirely to the visual and cultural legacy of hardcore punk stickers. Spanning North America from the early 1980s to 2024, the book documents a fleeting and affordable medium that helped define the DIY ethos of the scene.
Pairing full-color archival material with firsthand interviews, this deluxe hardcover preserves rare and often long-lost sticker artifacts from a medium never meant to last. Pasted on lampposts, venue walls, record bins, and street signs, stickers carried hardcore’s values far beyond the shows themselves.

Designed and laid out by André Leigl, the book preserves rare and often long-lost sticker artifacts from a medium never meant to last. Rather than aiming for encyclopedic completeness, it presents a carefully edited archive shaped by what has survived. The result is a focused and honest time capsule of hardcore’s visual language, values, and community, told by the people who lived it.
In-depth interviews with punk and hardcore luminaries from the 1980s to now, including: 7 Seconds, Quicksand, Earth Crisis, Have Heart, American Nightmare, Hot Water Music, Bane, Integrity, and Agnostic Front, and more!

THOMAS RACKOW is a longtime hardcore punk collector and documentarian whose work focuses on the visual culture of the DIY scene. He has spent decades preserving ephemeral materials — particularly stickers — that were never meant to last, assembling one of the most comprehensive archives of hardcore punk stickers in existence. Free Stickers with Every Order is his first book.