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Track listing

1. "Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C. (Sheep In Shepherd's Clothing)" – 2:50
2. "The Economy Is Suffering...Let It Die" – 3:36
3. "The Gre(a)t Depression" – 3:08
4. "We Are The One" – 3:07
5. "You Are Fired (Take This Job, Ah, Fuck It)" – 1:00
6. "This Is The First Night" – 3:33
7. "No War Without Warriors (How Do You Sleep?)" – 2:28
8. "When All The Lights Go Out" – 3:08
9. "On Independence Day" – 2:51
10. "The Old Guard" – 4:17
11. "Teenage Kennedy Lobotomy" (Hidden track) – 1:06

The People or The Gun is Anti-Flag's seventh studio album. The album was released on June 9, 2009. It was their first album released on independent label SideOneDummy Records after the band's two-record contract ended with RCA Records. The first track, "Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C. (Sheep In Shepherd's Clothing)", was released on the band's MySpace page prior to the album.

Writing and production

On December 2, 2008, Anti-Flag's singer, Chris #2, posted in his blog[1] that Anti-Flag had begun the recording of their album with "The Economy is Suffering, Let it Die." By December 18, Chris #2 had posted that nine songs had been completed, and on February 16, 2009, two pictures of the tentative track listing for The People or The Gun were posted on the blog.

In a March 21 interview with bassist Chris #2 in The Edge Magazine, he revealed that the band had recorded seventeen songs, but he wanted to cut the track number down "to a smaller number, ten or eleven," and make it a 30-minute album.

Promotion

The band will embark on two tours to support the release of the album. The Eastpak Antidote Tour co-headlining with Alexisonfire with support acts Four Year Strong and The Ghost of a Thousand, which will see the band doing 35 dates across Europe, between October and November 2009.

The Economy Sucks, Let's Party! Tour will begin in January 2010 and will take the band across 22 North American dates, with supporting acts Aiden, Cancer Bats and Fireworks. On February 2010 the band will continue the tour into Australia with 5 performances at the Soundwave Festival.

Album information

In late May, a music video for the album's first single, "When All The Lights Go Out", was released.

A portion of the proceeds from album pre-sales on the SideOneDummy website will be donated to Amnesty International.

All pre-orders of the album on the Side One Dummy records website, receives a digital download of two unreleased songs, "Bring Down Their Wall" and "A Brief Misunderstanding of the Kings and Queens".

An album bundle is also available on Side One Dummy records store which includes a 3 track EP of unreleased material, a The People or the Gun T-Shirt & Poster.

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