In the end, Jimmy Eat World signed with DreamWorks, a still fledgling label with a diverse roster that included the likes of Elliott Smith, Dr. Word started to get around about the album’s potential, so the band hired a manager and began talking to different labels. So the band began inviting interested parties to the studio to hear what they’d been working on. There still was no label to release the new album. When we knew we could pay him we paid him.”
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“Mark decided that he would pretty much work for free until we realized what the back end would look like. “We took all of our touring proceeds and put it towards making the record,” Adkins says. With money raised from the compilation sales and the tours, the band went to LA to work with Mark Trombino, the former Drive Like Jehu drummer-turned-producer who had helmed both Clarity and 1996’s Static Prevails. “We’d go over to Europe and play on these wacky nine-band bills and the fans would know words to these songs we were recording.” “We thought would be a cool way to get our music out there in different parts of the world where our records were harder to find. They also began uploading demos from the forthcoming album to Napster (yeah, remember Napster?) as a way of previewing what was to come.
They released a compilation titled Singles on indie label Big Wheel Recreation and toured Europe, where they were able to sell boxes of CDs they’d grabbed from Capitol, albums that hadn’t been released overseas yet. Despite getting dropped, Jimmy Eat World kept busy around the world.
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