You'd think some of these guys could afford it with pocket change, but wdik.
What?! Spend their own money?! Are you whacked? That is so NOT the liberal way.
Recording of the album began on the 21 February 1967 in studio three of Abbey Road Studios at the same time the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Pretty Things were recording S.F. Sorrow. The album was produced by Norman Smith, an EMI staff member who had previously engineered all of the Beatles' recordings up to 1965's Rubber Soul. Smith would go on to produce Pink Floyd's follow up album, A Saucerful of Secrets.