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The Clash London Calling Wrist Watch

The band's music was often charged by a leftist political ideology.

They are credited with pioneering the advocacy of radical politics in punk rock, and were known as the "Thinking Man's Yobs" by many simply for voicing a political slant other than anarchism.

They were never driven entirely by money; even at their peak, tickets to shows and souvenirs were reasonably priced.

The group insisted that CBS sell their double and triple album sets London Calling and Sandinista! for the price of a single album each (then £5), succeeding with the former and compromising with the latter by agreeing to sell it for £5.99 and forfeit all their royalties on its first 200,000 sales.

These "VFM" (value for money) principles meant that they were constantly in debt to CBS, and only started to break even around 1982.