Got a good thing going baby

Before I switched to mathematics, I was a music technology major. However, my first year at Wayne State coincided with the 2000 election, and the subsequent tanking of the economy. So I switched to mathematics, worrying that I wouldn't be able to find a job after graduation.

Looks like I'm a freakin' genius:

Interviewer: Why did this album have to be produced in your house?

Matthew Sweet: That just how they’re doing it now. There’s been this big shift and it’s been terrible for big studios. My very favorite studio in LA, which most recently was called Cello used to be the western side of United Western Studios. That’s where they made all these classic recordings like Beach Boys and Sinatra records. One of my favorite, if not my favorite engineer in the whole world, Jim Scott, worked only in those rooms and that studio is gone. They couldn’t keep it alive because of the advent of home recordings. The quality of which has gone up to where you can do a really good recording at home. For us it meant not having the pressure of a big budget.