Kauf MICH!
Kauf MICH! ("Buy ME!") is the ninth album by Die Toten Hosen, released in 1993. The LP is mainly a concept album dealing with consumerism and ultraconservatism. Along with the album's art and several songs addressing commerce, satirical advertisements and infomercials are interspersed among the music. In addition, the concept of right wing extremism as exemplified by ultraconservatism and neo-Nazism in the songs "Wilkommen in Deutschland" and "Sascha ...ein aufrechter Deutscher" is explored, which excited controversy during the time of the album's release. It was a best-selling album in Germany for 13 weeks in 1993, also selling well in Austria and Switzerland. Tracks 6 & 8 are mock infomercials performed by Gerhard Polt and Gisela Schneeberger and directed by Hanns Christian Müller. "Wünsch DIR was" has an intro sung by the children's choir "Mosquito" from the music school in Meerbusch. Track listing "Umtausch ausgeschlossen!" (roughly "no exchanges!" in a retail sense) (Rohde/Frege) – 2:18 "Niemals einer Meinung" ("Never of the same opinion") (Frege/Frege) – 3:44 "Hot-Clip-Video-Club" (Rohde/Frege) – 4:01 "Willkommen in Deutschland" ("Welcome to Germany") (Breitkopf/Frege) – 3:56 "Drunter, drauf & drüber" ("Under, on and over") (Frege, Müller/Frege, Müller) – 3:02 "Erotim-Super-3-feucht" ("ES3-damp") – 0:31 "Kauf MICH!" ("Buy ME!") (Breitkopf/Frege,