"Into the Unknown" had 10,000 copies pressed. Bad Religion's bass player Jay Bentley said they were almost all returned, including one bootleg (they gave him his money back too). After they were returned, they put them in the Bomp warehouse. Guitarist Brett Gurewitz worked there for a bit and was dating a girl from there called Suzi Shaw.
Bomp sold most of the albums without telling the band. When they found out, they stopped it and Jay said only about 300 copies were left at that time (which he still kept in his garage in the late 90s and probably to this day). Suzy Shaw wrote a letter to Goldmine magazine about how she sold copies from the Bomp warehouse after Brett lived with her for a year without paying for anything, so she thought she had every right to do it. She was quite critical of Jay saying 9,700 copies were sold. She says it was like 2,000.
The album can still be found on the internet (as of late 20th Century), e.g. on e-bay where it usually sells for 100 dollars or more.
CD copy of the original vinyl album are also available. Apart from this CD bootleg, there is another bootleg CD with a drawing of a monster on the sleeve (on pink or yellow thin cardboard -i.e. there are two versions of the boot). Three song titles are incorrect and even Bad Religion is misspelled. It is produced by Devil's Double Records (former East Germany?).
Brett bought Greg a Roland Juno 6 synthesiser and Greg used it to write all his songs in Into the Unknown, which Brett now hates. Bad Religion's bass player Jay Bentley:
"At the time there wasn't much of a scene left in L.A. It's exactly what a 17 year old punk would do, go against the grain. It wasn't so much courage, as it was what was stated in the opening, he [Greg] and Brett did it because they liked it. Well, and Brett was on drugs. Hahaha. It sounds like a band progressing musically, but it also sounds like a band doing something and not understanding the values of it. There was a lot of keyboard and monotony in there, he didn't change anything (...) I don't think it was the song so much as the attitude, the whole process of making the record was kind of backwards to me, it didn't seem right."
