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Steal This Record is the fourth studio album by the Detroit, Michigan punk rock band The Suicide Machines, released in 2001 by Hollywood Records. It was the band's last album for the Hollywood label, as they moved to Side One Dummy Records the following year. It was also their last album with longtime bassist Royce Nunley, who left the group in 2002. The album's musical direction continues with the pop punk style the band had explored on their previous album The Suicide Machines but a bit heavier with some elements of hardcore from their early albums and a sort of return to more political lyrics instead of the more lighthearted lyrics of the previous album, in addition to an attempt at a reggae inspired track.

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Steal This Record
Studio album by The Suicide Machines
Released	September 25, 2001
Recorded	2001
Studio	Hensen Recording Studio in Hollywood, California
Genre	Punk rock
Length	39:52
Label	Hollywood
Producer	Julian Raymond
The Suicide Machines chronology
The Suicide Machines (2000) Steal This Record (2001) The Least Worst of the Suicide Machines (2002)

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Background

The album attempted to get back into the more punk sounding songs, but they had difficulty adjusting back to this sound due to Nunley still being into the style the self titled album had, though Lukacinsky was getting back into writing more punk sounding songs. The tensions from the behind the scenes of the last album were still there, as Lukacinsky and Nunley still hated each other.

The single "The Killing Blow" was not put on the radio or given a video due to the timing of it, since the September 11 attacks were not that long before the release of the album and Hollywood was afraid to turn a song with that title in.

The song “Brass Ring” was originally meant for this album but got cut. It later appeared on The Least Worst of the Suicide Machines as one of the unreleased tracks and on the Japanese version of the album.[1]

Track listing

All songs written by The Suicide Machines except where noted.

Personnel

• Jason Navarro – vocals
• Dan Lukacinsky – guitar, backing vocals
• Royce Nunley – bass, backing vocals
• Ryan Vandeberghe – drums
• Toby Morse (of the band H2O) – additional vocals on "It's The End Of The World As We Know It"

Technical

• Julian Raymond – producer
• Greg Goldman – engineer
• John Aguto – engineer
• Mark Valentine – assistant engineer
• Brian Humphrey – assistant engineer
• Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
• Brian Gardener – mastering
• Shannon Crawford – cover painting
• Enny Joo – design
• Terri Phillips – photography

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