Following his eviction, Margie Johnston, his sister, let Daniel live with her in her San Marcos home, where he worked in pizza delivery.

While earlier records found him focusing on piano or chord organ songs almost exclusively, this album blends both approaches along with experiments in tape and noise collage, and some tentative playing on a stringed instrument, referred to as a guitar, a toy guitar, or a ukulele.

[5] The album's artwork is a sketch of "Jeremiah the Frog of Innosense" (sic),[6] a character created by Johnston inspired by an old rubber stamp box he discovered while working at AstroWorld that previous summer.

Since he had already called back to "Grievances" countless times throughout his previous tapes, he felt it was only appropriate to continue to use the phrase as yet another call-back.

One individual given a copy of the album was Kathy McCarty, who said that "That weird kid is probably the only genius I've met in my life!

[12] In 1988, when the album was pressed on LP by Homestead Records, Mark Lerario for the Reading Eagle said that it sounded like "A basement tape haphazardly put together by deaf hippies.

[14] By 1992,[15] Kurt Cobain began wearing a T-shirt of the album's cover, launching Johnston into mainstream popularity.