Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves

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Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves
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Studio album by
Released1996
Genre Indie rock, emo, post-hardcore
Label Gern Blandsten Records
Producer The Van Pelt
The Van Pelt chronology
Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves
(1996)
Sultans of Sentiment
(1997)

Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves is the first full-length album by The Van Pelt, an indie rock band from New York City, released in 1996.

Contents

Track listing

  1. His Steppe Is My Prairie
  2. It's A Suffering
  3. Shame On You
  4. Magic Fantasy (We Are Provincial)
  5. You Are The Glue
  6. Simone Never Had It This Good
  7. His Saxophone Is My Guitar
  8. It's New To Me
  9. Turning Twenty Into Two

Personnel

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