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Egoldt was known for mercenary business practices throughout the label's period of operation, and "developed a reputation for short-changing the musicians who recorded with Rock-O-Rama" according to
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signalled the label's marked shift towards the neo-Fascist music market through the latter half of the 1980s. Egoldt did not himself hold far-right political views, but rather saw the nascent neo-Nazi skinhead movement as a potentially profitable business opportunity. Despite this, Rock-O-Rama became
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to gather evidence for a sedition prosecution, confiscating approximately 30,000 CDs, cassette tapes, and records. Egoldt closed the label in 1994, disinclined to risk further legal action. He died of a heart attack in 2005, aged 56, leaving the ownership of the Rock-O-Rama back catalogue, which he
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persuaded Egoldt to issue their first single, "Punks Are the Old Farts of Today" (1980). Thus born, Rock-O-Rama
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began investigating the label around this time. In the early 1990s, scrutiny of the white power music scene in
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possessed the rights to, in limbo. In 2007, the label was purchased by new owners, who have kept operating it to this day, managing to "churn out releasesâmostly in the form of reissuesâas recently as April ."
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