Craig Caron, the founder of Schizophrenic Records, colored the image and used it to release the vinyl version of the BCT # 18 tape: Thrash, Therefore I Am. The BCT logo was a character called Moe Hawk drawn in black and white by Dan, the singer of Eat the Rich from San Jose. The 22nd tape is dedicated to the rising Spanish punk/hardcore scene
Epp & The Calculations (the band of Mark Arm and Steve Turner, which later became Green River and then Mudhoney ), Skoundrelz (the band of famous skater Tony Alva) and Eat The Rich, while the second tape Music On Fire featured bands from the Italian punk scene such as 5° Braccio, Raw Power, Indigesti, Wretched, Stazione Suicida, Crash Box and Rappresaglia. The first tape of the label, titled First Strike, included bands from the US such as Clitboys, Future Ruins, Violation, Vatican Commandos (with a very young Moby on guitar), Mr. From those tapes the label made its first Italian compilation tapes. (Flowers of Grain Records), to send tapes of Italian punk bands to BCT which he did. Syd Migx, the frontman of CCM (Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers), responded to it asking the Italian Roberto Schiavo, founder of the F.O.G. BCT placed a small personal ad in Rockerilla, the most important alternative music magazine in Italy at the time. The announcement was then reprinted in several European magazines and the Italian fanzines TVOR and Attack Punkzine, which contributed a lot to the internationalization of the label. In 1982 BCT published an announcement on the 8th issue of Maximumrocknroll asking punk groups to send their compositions to them.
History of BCT 1982-1986: Bad Compilation Tapes