Hollywood Potato Chip
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The original album cover, with lettering mimicking the logo of Variety.
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| Studio album by The Vandals | ||||
| Released | June 29, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2003–2004 at SoundCastle Studios in Silverlake, California and at Formula One Studios in Fullerton, California | |||
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Pop punk Punk rock Skate punk Melodic hardcore |
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| Length | 33:24 | |||
| Label | Kung Fu | |||
| Producer | Warren Fitzgerald | |||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
The replacement cover with redesigned lettering, issued after a cease and desist order from Variety.
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Hollywood Potato Chip is the tenth studio album by the Southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 2004 by Kung Fu Records. A music video starring guitarist and producer Warren Fitzgerald was filmed for the band's cover version of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now". The album's title is a euphemism for dried semen on a casting couch. Its original cover art used lettering that parodied the logo of Variety, prompting legal action and a cease and desist order from the magazine which resulted in a replacement cover with redesigned lettering. In 2010 the magazine brought further legal action against the band over third-party uses of the original cover appearing on the internet.
The album's cover was a source of legal controversy. A few months after the album's release, entertainment industry magazine Variety issued a cease and desist order against The Vandals over the design of the band's name on the album cover. The design mimicked the logo of the magazine as an intentional comment on the materialistic culture of Hollywood, and the magazine accused the band of trademark infringement. The lawsuit was settled with redesigned lettering which appears on all subsequent pressings of the album.
However, in April 2010 Variety filed a lawsuit against the band in a Delaware court, suing them over images of the original cover appearing on the internet. The magazine claimed that the band "ignored their agreement" and were "misusing our mark". The Vandals claimed that they had ceased using the parody logo per the terms of the cease and desist order, and they were not responsible for images placed on the internet by third parties:
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