 Big Star 's first post @-@ reunion studio recording was the song " Hot Thing , " recorded in the mid @-@ 1990s for the Big Star tribute album Big Star , Small World . As with their prior studio release , however , the tribute album was delayed for years due to its record company going under . Originally scheduled for a 1998 release on Ignition Records , the album was eventually released in 2006 on Koch Records . 
