Get a Life is a 1998 album by Doug Sahm released by the Dutch label Munich Records.^[2] The tracks were recorded in Austin and San Marcos, Texas, Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California. The producers of the tracks included Sahm, Mike Stewart, Billy Stull and Bob Flick.^[3] Sahm wrote the liner notes for the album.^[4] The recordings featured The Gourds, as well as Augie Meyers.^[5] Sahm met The Gourds as he performed at a music festival in Belgium in 1997. Sahm approached the band after he heard them sing a cover of his original "At the Crossroads".^[6]

The release was credited to Doug Sahm - A.K.A. The Texas Tornado.^[1] Watermelon Records released the album as S.D.Q. 98' in the United States in October 1998.^[7] The Austin American-Statesman gave the album three stars out of five, and called it a "happily jumbled affair".^[8] Meanwhile, AllMusic rated it with four-and-a-half stars out of five. Critic Eugene Chadbourne felt that "musically there is enough (on the album) to create a tidal wave."^[5]