Question: What rock band signed to Def American Recordings in 1989, shipped 500,000 copies of their third album reaching gold status? 
Sentence (from "Amorica"): Spawned from their unreleased scrapped album "Tall", "Amorica" was released in late 1994 on American Recordings and reissued in the UK in 1998 with two bonus tracks.
Relevant evidence: No