 With Bradford, Fleishman and Mark Fuller on drums the band worked on and off for almost a year recording their songs at a crude 8-track recording facility in the basement of an old slaughterhouse called the Packing House Studios.Having limited funds they did all the tracking and mixing themselves, and released the album, "...A Thinking Plague" in 1984 on their own Endemic label.Only 500 LPs were pressed with each cover hand painted by Drake with spray-paint and a stencil.