Punk enthusiasts, rejoice! The awesome folks at Operation Phoenix Records have kindly made available a large collection of punk zines, including hard-to-find early issues of Flipside and Maximumrocknroll, in high-quality scans via their website.

The website received permission to post the scans from all respective publishers, and is making an effort to add further titles to its already impressive archive. One can download and peruse such righteous content as the hilariously gossipy bits about The Germs in Flipside's first issue from August 1977.

Or how about an early Black Flag interview from a 1980 issue, wherein they explain their name?

If you end up spending hours sorting through the nicely arranged PDF files on the site, like we have - you can donate money, via a Paypal link on the archives page, to further the digitizing efforts at Operation Phoenix.