Rough Trade may refer to:
- Rough Trade Records, a record label
- Rough Trade (shops), linked but independent London record stores
- Rough Trade (band), a Canadian new wave rock band
- Rough Trade (American Dad!), an episode of American Dad!
- Rough Trade, a slang term for a masculine working class man who has sex with men (sometimes as a male prostitute)
Famous quotes containing the words rough and/or trade:
“If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“I am cozily ensconced in the balcony of my face
Looking out over the whole darn countryside, a beacon of satisfaction
I am. I’ll not trade places with a king. Here I am then, continuing but ever beginning
My perennial voyage....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)