We're Only in It for the Money

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We're Only in It for the Money is the third album by American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released on March 4, 1968, by Verve Records. As with the band's first two LP's, it is a concept album, written and composed by bandleader and guitarist Frank Zappa. The album satirizes left- and right-wing politics, the 1960s counterculture, the corporatization of rock music and youth culture, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as general American culture and society. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, and Uncle Meat. The album's originally intended cover artwork was arranged by Cal Schenkel and Jerry Schatzberg as a parody of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The photoshoot was financed by Zappa and featured Jimi Hendrix. However, Verve decided to package the album with the parody cover as interior artwork, with the original interior artwork (which parodied...

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