“The Maximum Rocknroll issue, ‘Some of Your Friends Are Already This Fucked,’ that was on everybody’s minds—the horror stories of getting screwed,” says Adkins. “The worst-case scenario is you’d hear about some group going into the red making their record, the label hates it, they won’t even give it back to release it, and they own the songs, so you can’t even do anything with them. We were cautious of things like that going down.”
