I definitely didn't know that then. I got into them cause Bad Luck got radio play and I loved that album. Thought WL was the follow up. I was already into Op Ivy, Bosstones, Boston Hardcore etc at that point, and didn't even know Social D was a punk band when I was wearing out Somewhere Between...
we had an underground midnight radio show where i grew up that was like 2 hours punk, 2 hours industrial and 2 hours hardcore techno, and i got introduced to it *really* young (like, 12 years old), so i was fortunate to get into a lot of older/foundational stuff really early
someone* actually archived the whole thing, which rules *i know who
I got it early, just totally decontextualized!