Joe Friday won't be getting the facts-or getting paid-for Dragnet's latest business venture. And it's not because Dragnet was cancelled thirty years ago, or that the show's star, Jack Webb, is too dead to read Friday's lines. Rather, it's because Superdrag are now calling the shots for what's left of the Dragnet enterprise-the band's official web site, located here.

Beginning in October, Drag queens and kings will be able to purchase an as-yet-untitled compilation featuring seven-inch singles originally released during the quartet's indie years, along with five previously-unreleased new songs recorded during sessions for its Head Trip in Every Key album, released in March.

According to manager Jake Ottomann, the album will include material from the singles released on the Darla and Arena Rock labels, such as "Senorita" and "HHT," the song that helped Superdrag get inked to Elektra records. In addition, new songs such as "Simple Simon," "Take Your Spectra Away" and "Bristol Gurls," recorded in Woodstock, N.Y., earlier this year, will be among the expected thirteen to fourteen tracks. Another new song, "I Know the Score," a peevish anthem, features the Tipper Gore-friendly line "f--- you and everything you stand for."

BLAIR R. FISCHER