The What of Whom  The What of Whom is the third self-released music cassette album by singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, recorded in 1982. The album was released on cassette in 1988 by Stress Records, made available in downloadable mp3 format by Emusic in 2000, and re-released on CD-R by Eternal Yip Eye Music in 2004. In between some songs, Daniel has little snippets of him talking, or small skits of background noise concerning his every day life.