things going on behind the scenes that I was unaware of, but kicking Vapid out of Screeching Weasel looked to me like a pointless power play." Artwork The artwork for Beat Off was created by Lookout!'s Patrick Hynes and Chris Appelgren, with Hynes providing the design of the band's name and album title while Appelgren provided the rest of the artwork and did the layout. The album marked the debut of the "Queers cat", a mascot Appelgren created for the band based on old Felix the Cat images he had "borrowed" for the artwork of Love Songs for the Retarded. The cover photograph, credited to "Julie #9", showed a live Queers audience giving the camera the finger. Reception Reviewing Beat Off for Allmusic, Kembrew McLeod rated it 3 stars out of 5 and commented that it "takes a step back, or so it seems, from the melodic growth shown between Grow Up and Love Songs for the Retarded. Actually, the ratio between melodicism versus dissonant, high-speed punk is probably the same as on Love Songs, but Queers fans have come to expect more." Livermore later wrote that he felt the album suffered from rushed and lackluster production, while King called it and the Queer's following studio album, 1995's Move Back Home, "mediocre", saying they did not measure up to albums put out during the same period by the band's peers, specifically Screeching Weasel's My Brain Hurts (1991), Green Day's Dookie (1994), and the Mr. T Experience's Love Is Dead (1996). Reissue In 2006 the Queers followed several other former Lookout! artists in rescinding their master tapes and licensing rights from the label, invoking a clause in their contract citing delinquent royalty payments. They signed to Asian Man Records, who reissued all of the band's Lookout! albums in 2007, each having been remixed and remastered by Mass Giorgini at his Sonic Iguana Studios in Lafayette, Indiana. For its reissue, Beat Off was given new artwork including a different cover photograph (also taken by Julie #9), and new liner notes written by Ben Weasel extolling the virtues of King's songwriting and authenticity. This release also added a cover version of the Angry Samoans' "My Old Man's a Fatso", an outtake from the Beat Off sessions originally released as the title track of an EP put out by independent record label Woundup Records. Track listing Writing credits adapted from the album's liner notes.