The whole thing reminds me of countless stories about indie rock labels in the 80's, a lot of which formed out of zines and around friends-of-friends and so on. Well-meaning labels crashed and burned. Some albums disappeared for years. Supposedly the members of Hüsker Dü are still convinced SST owes them each tens of thousands of dollars, but nobody can tell because SST didn't issue a single financial statement for a decade or so.