He goes through a series of increasingly desperate attempts to get money and eventually scrounges some out of his grumpy grandfather, who just wants to go fishing.
The new band began recording in a friend's basement, essentially bartering for recording time with musical gear and whatever limited funds they could scrounge up.
Additional communicators and radios increased the communications sections, plus additional mission-essential gear were scrutinized to obviate the prior necessity of scrounging for gear to get ready for their next operation.