Formed Dischord Records

After a year in existence, the band had earned a total of $600. They now faced two options: divide the money among the members, or press the recordings they had made with Zientara at Inner Ear. Choosing the latter, Nelson, Strejcek and MacKaye formed Dischord Records with Groff’s help, to release the recordings. The band sent the tapes to a pressing plant in Nashville, Tennessee that specialized in pressing country music records. Initially puzzled by the request to put eight songs on a 7″ record, they pressed 1,000 copies. For the cover, the band took apart another 7″ record sleeve and used it as a template for their own cover design. They photocopied it on 11″ × 17″ paper, which the band members cut out with scissors, folded and glued by hand, then into these inserted the records and lyric sheets. Released in December 1980, Minor Disturbance was a local success, receiving radio airplay and reviews from fanzines such as Touch and Go , which meant that Dischord now had enough money to release records by other bands.