So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band, NOFX. "So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes" was released on November 11, 1997. The producers of the album were Ryan Greene and Fat Mike. The title of the album comes from the title of the fourth book of Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and the common practice of punk rock fans when they throw shoes lost by crowd surfers on stage.