Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down

Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down
Studio album by
Released1997
GenreSka
Length57:58
LabelMoon Ska Records
ProducerRobert "Bucket" Hingley
The Toasters chronology
Hard Band for Dead
(1996)
Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down
(1997)
Enemy of the System
(2002)
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Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down is the seventh studio album by The Toasters. It has a much more mature sound than their previous albums and wasn't as solely focused on one genre (2-Tone) as their other albums before it had been. The album's cover includes the supposed-Latin motto, "Illegitimis non carborundum", which is supposed to mean "one must not be ground down by the bastards", although it is largely faux-Latin, with "carborundum" (intended to look like a Latin gerundive) actually referring to silicon carbide, a type of abrasive.