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Destiny Street must have seemed like a dead end to Richard Hell & The Voidoids in 1982. Unsatisfied with the art punk originators’ second and final album, perhaps troubled by its rather thin, muffled sound or its flailing chaos, Hell wanted desperately to remix the wild and woolly successor to 1977’s seminal Blank Generation debut. Unfortunately, the original 24-track masters went missing, preventing Hell from performing the necessary operation. As luck would have it, in the early 2000s, H...