"The Outcasts" regularly participated in Battle of the Bands competitions, usually placing first or second; in 1966, the band won the competition statewide, at the peak of garage rock fervor, beating the large number of bands that were then active in Texas. (No other state is so heavily collected today in compilation albums of garage rock and psychedelic rock music; as one example, the landmark Highs in the Mid-Sixties series devotes five of their twenty-three volumes to bands from Texas.) The band dissolved in 1968; founding member Buddy Carson died of complications of hepatitis that same year. "The Outcasts", with various spelling variants, has been a fairly common name for rock bands for many years; at least 10 bands were using this name during the mid-1960s. This has led to some confusion among these varied groups. One common misconception has to do with the 1960s band The Outcasts from Manhasset, New York, whose recordings were reissued by the same Collectables label, even before they featured the Texas band. In the mid-1980s, Cicadelic Records released three archival albums by the New York group: "Meet the Outcasts!" (studio recordings, mostly previously unreleased), "The Battle of the Bands Live!" (split release) and "Live! Standing Room Only" (a 1967 concert). In 1993, Collectables reissued both albums on CD, with additional songs that include "Society's Child" and "Get It On". Popular recordings (reissued on compilations) of this band are "Don't Press Your Luck", "I Didn't Have to Love Her Anymore", "Nothing But Love", "Set Me Free" and their unique versions of "Walk On By" and "Gloria". Another band called the Outcasts recorded several tracks backing Linda Pierre King, an artist featured on a compilation of female garage rock artists from Texas, "We Had the Beat / The Heartbeats & Other Texas Girls of the 60s". That album's liner notes suggested that the San Antonio band had backed her on these songs, a natural mistake, since King is from Houston, and the record label that released the final single by the Outcasts, Gallant Records, was based there. The 1995 retrospective "I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining" (15 tracks, all the band's music on the Collectables label) omits the band's first single, "Nothing Ever Comes Easy" b/w "Oriental Express"; according to the CD's brief liner notes, it was "not up-to-par with their subsequent releases."