Why did they sign a contract that would not give them what they wanted.

To bad, they should have read it. They no longer have rights to the music the wrote and recorded, it belongs to Sony now

Didn't you read his "story" page??

"...when I got a phone call from Denny, a blind kid who turned me onto a toy whistle he got out of a Cap'n Crunch cereal box..."

There is no indication there that he ever ate, or now eats Cap'n Crunch. We can only assume that he did.