The Offspring is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on June 15, 1989 on Nemesis Records as vinyl-only, and was not released on CD and cassette until November 21, 1995 on Nitro/Epitaph Records, with a new album cover but otherwise identical. Both the re-releases on the two respective labels are identical as well.
The album was originally released in 1989 in limited numbers by Nemesis Records, only ...
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The Offspring is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on June 15, 1989 on Nemesis Records as vinyl-only, and was not released on CD and cassette until November 21, 1995 on Nitro/Epitaph Records, with a new album cover but otherwise identical. Both the re-releases on the two respective labels are identical as well.
The album was originally released in 1989 in limited numbers by Nemesis Records, only in a 12" vinyl format. Only 1000 copies of this vinyl were made at the time and it took the band two and a half years to sell them all. The vinyl is now the most expensive piece of The Offspring's work as it is also the rarest.
The band also re-recorded the tracks "Blackball" and "I'll Be Waiting," which were originally released on a 7" double A-side vinyl record which was distributed by the band itself under the fictitious Black Label Records. The tracks were added to the album, so that it would not just be a 20+ minute mini-album.
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