Editing Buddha (album) (section)

==Packaging and release==
[[File:Mark Hoppus, May 1994.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Mark Hoppus in May 1994, shortly after ''Buddha'' was recorded.]]
The photographs in the original cassette release of ''Buddha'' were photographs taken by friend of the band Cam Jones.<ref name="p24-25" /> Kerry Key, drummer for the Iconoclasts and friend of the band, also is credited with artwork in the original cassette.<ref name="linernotes" /> To produce the artwork, Hoppus and Jones spent an afternoon together taking "artsy" photographs in and around Raynor's backyard.<ref name="p24-25" /> The cover art is a picture of a [[Budai]] statue (commonly mistaken in the west for statues of the [[Buddha]], hence the demo title). The statue was a present from Hoppus' stepfather that the bassist grabbed on the way to Raynor's for the photos. After developing the photos, they took them to a copy shop to run off color copies. Afterwards, they cut, pasted and rearranged them until they found something suitable. The lyric sheets were handwritten and photocopied.<ref name="p24-25" /> Hoppus and his family in [[Ridgecrest, California|Ridgecrest]] would spend hours folding and combining pieces of artwork to compile the ''Buddha'' cassette. When this was complete, Hoppus would load the cassettes into his car and deliver them to local record stores around town.<ref name="page26" />

{{Blockquote|text="I totally remember driving around to all the record stores to drop off tapes to sell. I'd go to Lou's Records, and Off the Record, and Music Trader. It was so cool because the tapes were actually selling, that's why I had to keep going back every week. Music Trader would have sold one copy, Off the Record sold two, or whatever. But that meant people were actually walking into a music store and buying something we had written and recorded. It was awesome."|sign=[[Mark Hoppus]]<ref name=page26>Hoppus, 2001. p. 26</ref>}}

The demo tape, which was originally untitled, came to be known by the name ''Buddha'', and was released by Filter Records in 1994.<ref name="linernotesRE">{{cite AV media notes | title=Buddha | year=1998 | work=[[Blink-182]] | type=liner notes | publisher=[[Kung-Fu Records]] | location=[[United States|US]] | id=Kung Fu 78765-2}}</ref>  Cassette copies of ''Buddha'' were also sold at early Blink concerts, alongside homemade T-shirts.<ref name="page26" />