 With no other label interested in repressing it, "Screeching Weasel" went out of print for the next decade until VML Records re-released the album on CD in 1997.The CD version was remastered by Mass Giorgini and featured a full-color version of the album art as well as several previously unreleased bonus tracks.The band was formed as All-Night Garage Sale by Ben Foster (later taking the stage name "Ben Weasel") and John Pierson ("John Jughead") in Prospect Heights, Illinois in 1986, changing their name to Screeching Weasel shortly after.