Originally Posted by Anteater

I admire anyone who can write and record fully fleshed out albums singlehandedly.

Also, at the time Tom Scholz recorded that Boston self-titled, he didn't have much money. He was just ridiculously obsessed with sound equipment so spent practically everything he had to turn his basement into a personal recording studio. It just turned out he was a better sound engineer than practically anyone else in the industry at the time, so he was able to produce some amazing sounding stuff despite having relatively subpar equipment.