songs from the group's sole recording session were issued as the "illiteracy will prevail" demo tape. with the exception of the song "spank thru", the tracks from this session remain unreleased officially. a re-recording of "downer" was also released on the first nirvana album, "bleach". "illiteracy will prevail" is the earliest documentation of cobain's songwriting in circulation, and helped cobain to establish himself as a composer and performer among his peers in the underground rock scene in washington state.