 Byrd referenced Martin in a 2004 interview.The album's cult status was confirmed by its presence in the Columbia Masterworks catalog for an estimated twenty years.Byrd reported in 2002 in an interview published on Salon.com, and follow-up in regards to a letter filed in the Napster music copyright case, that despite estimated sales of at least 100,000 units for "The American Metaphysical Circus" alone, he had never received a penny of royalties for either "The United States of America" or "The American Metaphysical Circus" from Sony/Columbia/CBS.