High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bad as Me is the seventeenth studio album by American rock musician Tom Waits, released on October 21, 2011 by ANTI- Records. The album is known to have been recorded as early as February 2011 and was officially announced for release on August 23, 2011 on Waits` official web site and various social media networks. On the same day, the title track, "Bad as Me," was released as the album`s first single on iTunes.