10 Rock Bands Who Were Forced To Change Their Album Covers

With deep involvement in the skating scene of the late-'90s and early-'00s, the CKY video series, and Jackass (thanks in no small part to drummer Jess Margera being the brother of Jackass alumni Bam Margera), CKY have courted controversy since their inception – though this should come as little surprise considering their name stands for Camp Kill Yourself.

And this was also the name of their debut album when it was released in 1999, sporting a blood-red, hand-painted image of US politician R Budd Dwyer with a gun in his mouth, whose press conference suicide was broadcast to daytime TV audiences throughout Pennsylvania back in 1987.

When CKY signed with Volcom, the label deemed this to be in poor taste and too offensive to keep producing. For Volcom's reissue and all future releases, the cover art was changed to a posterised photo of CKY guitarist Chad I Ginsburg performing to fans on the 1999 Warped Tour. Similarly, once the band had signed with Island in 2001, the record was rebranded as CKY, Volume 1.

An inverted version of this artwork was also used for the cover of what is still the band's most popular single to date, 96 Quite Bitter Beings. But physical copies of this are even more scarce than the album.