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1 year

lol

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Two American heroes gone in one day

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i wonder why we haven't sold many of this $75 andre 3000 record at the record shop

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There will never be another band like the MC5 RIP Wayne Kramer

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irate customer stormed in claiming we sold her the wrong t*ylor sw*ft lp. "it's a man singing!!" it's a 45RPM LP and well you know...

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Today some people brought in a box of LPs to sell. Our guy going through them found an envelope in Def Leppard’s Hysteria with $600 inside. Then he found more envelopes in other records totaling $1800. When they came back in…

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Bought a record collection from a guy today. He had some personal polaroids that he took of the Sex Pistols at the Longhorn in Dallas in 1978 including one of SId Vicious that should probably be in a museum or at least in a book. Some crazy punk rock shenanigans were had by all

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11 months

band that doesn't seem to connect with kids these days at the record shop: big star. we used to sell tons of these & we barely sell it now

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2 years

We returned the money & they told us their mother had dementia & she was hiding money all over the house & they were selling the records to get money for her care. That’s a first one for me

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7 years

@nytimes @nytopinion shaming them seems ok to me

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2 years

a reminder that this is good #murraystreet @thesonicyouth

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7 months

@askyourpillow i was at an industry meeting in august where one of the representivies of a MASSIVE company assured everyone about their commitment to the business, then they announced they were shutting down less than 2 months later. he knew & said this in front of people that would be fired

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3 years

One thing always gives me joy working at the record store is seeing the actual origin of a record collector/music fan. A teenage girl & her father were in the store today & she left with a turntable & two new LPs & she couldn't have hid her excitement even if she tried.

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1 year

why aren't people talking about this record all the time?

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2 years

First time seeing a Mexican pressing of this one @NeilYoungNYA #enlaplaya #onthebeach

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2 years

Do people realize how popular this record is? It’s the best selling catalog record at Reckless, more than Rumours so far this year

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3 months

hear me out: proto-shoegaze

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@mattjencik

6 months

I buried my baby yesterday. I’m still pretty shocked by it. I know everybody thinks their pets are the best but Bird truly was one of kind. He had as much energy the other day as he’s always had & he’s gone now. He was so smart & mischievous & just the sweetest guy. I’m gutted

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4 months

why aren't people talking about tim hardin constantly

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7 years

#obama & his @kraftwerk cover band voted did you? @KorgUSA @moogmusicinc @Roland_US @WhiteHouse @AEPaterra collab

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1 year

it's real, the older you get, the better electric fretless bass sounds

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11 months

Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns is 25 This is the pre-mastered dub I got from the boys back then. I lived across the courtyard from them & I’d sit on my porch drinking beer listening to them write the songs @touchandgorec #doncab

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2 years

RIP Klaus Schulze spacing out to Timewind currently as one should

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1 year

is this the best artist photo ever? of course it is

Sun Ra Arkestra

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1 year

Sun Ra came from Saturn. Interplanetary Earth Arrival date May 22 1914. Place The Magic City, Birmingham, Alabama. US

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@sarahmccammon @RobRossi_ because he was late? He's done a lot of worse things over the past few months

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1 year

Found this thing on my phone I forgot I made

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2 years

sometimes I think about all of the effort & belief I've put into making music with so little reward & it's kind of embarrassing

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3 months

today i would like to share one of my favorite images that i've ever found on the internet

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7 months

a few months after bandcamp launched, they invited a bunch of local musicians/industry folks to the hideout for a sort of launch party. i went & it was pretty small maybe about 50 people. they were definitely pitching it to us because i remember a lot of people were skeptical...

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overheard at the record store "do you like music?"

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@mattjencik

3 years

Looks like one of my solo shows

Eric Cortellessa

@EricCortellessa

3 years

Trump’s lawyers are about to speak here at the Four Seasons (Total Landscaping, that is) moments after CNN and NBC News have declared Pennsylvania and the presidency for Joe Biden.

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@spacedevilRIP I think it’s way too expensive but the cd isn’t selling either. Waiting 5 months for the physical after streaming release is dumb

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4 years

Resealable LP sleeves: Why? They're basically useless after you open them once and I've had the adhesive part stick to covers & ruin the art

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1 year

@Lackthrush woke side of the moon bro

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4 months

i've shared this before but i'm sharing again becaues it rules

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Meat Puppets Swimming Ground Phoenix television show “Finn & Friends” Channel 12 Studio 1985

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Brian McBride at Kranky 20 in Chicago. ciao maestro

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6 months

playing this in the shop as it gets dark on devil's night. not sure why but for years this record has sort of confounded me. i almost can't believe that it got made. it's fucking genius

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it's weird thinking back on that day now not knowing how successful it would become. just another typical story in our industry where something interesting & cool is created then gobbled up & destroyed by a major corportation. respect to @bandcampunited for their achievements

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for me the drumming on that early pavement stuff is as important as the songs & lyrics. it wouldn't have been the same without Gary. RIP

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9 months

Gary Young, Pavement's original drummer, has died

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2 years

@Marcissist Imagine being a small band or new band trying to get started right now. If bands like AC can't make it work, who can?

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4 months

looks like neil had a few honey slides before they filmed this

Historic Vids

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Neil Young playing banjo and singing "Out On The Weekend"

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2 years

Dedicated 30 years to music. Writing, recording, touring, releasing records, buying/selling in record stores etc…I’ve never felt more disappointed in all aspects of it. I’m really feeling the effects of putting too many eggs in one basket & some people have really let me down

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found some photos of guided by voices that i took from the insects of rock tour in 1994. that tour was for bee thousand & they were already playing a lot of alien lanes songs. 10 shows of amazing tunes & so much beer @_GuidedByVoices @_ScatRecords #insectsofrock

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2 years

haven't heard this in years & it sounds so good on a mellow day in the record shop. this record was so important to my scene of Pittsburgh friends when it came out. amazing record @thrilljockey @john_mcentire #tortoise

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3 years

one trend at the record store this year that's curious to me is that we're selling TONS of jazz records. more than i can ever remember. modern stuff on labels like @intlanthem but the classic stuff just blows out of here. And not just the slam-dunks like Miles & Coltrane...

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my band hurl was recording with bob weston back in 97. while he was setting up he asked us if we wanted to hear the new fugazi which we very much did because it wasn't out yet. it was the first fugazi album i heard early. i still remember being so shocked when the vocals came in

Pitchfork

@pitchfork

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Fugazi's End Hits is 25 today. See where the album landed on our list of the 50 best albums of '98 here

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3 years

I can't believe that this black metal record starts with a recording of rain

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2 years

New one, some guy tried to return a Tool record because the etching wasn't "crisp" enough looking

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7 years

Curious, do non-music retail people realize how popular "Donuts" and "Madvillainy" are? #JDILLA @MFDOOM @madlib

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RIP Wayne Shorter. This was one of the first jazz records that I got into that wasn't Miles, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Monk etc... What a massive body of work this man created

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1 year

very happy to report that this remastered LP sounds fantastic. quiet pressing, great dynamics & guitar tones @thecure @Rhino_Records #wish

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1 year

Mike Watt was the first "famous" person from a band that I met. I was 14 or so & LOVED firehose. I went to to see them at Electric Banana in Pittsburgh early with some friends hoping I could meet him. He was playing pool & he couldn't have been nicer to us scrawny little nerds

Bass Magazine

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Happy Birthday to the mighty Mike Watt!

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1 year

Byrds is mostly my favorite Crosby stuff but this one damn

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6 years

@thehill why didn't he do the two-handed water drink thing then?

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7 months

...myself included, about how it was going to benefit artists/labels. i definitely remember walking away from it feeling like they were starting something that could be really positive for everyone & for the last 8 years they more or less delivered on that.

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1 year

that's the house where i grew up, my mother still lives there. when i was taking these photos my mom kept asking me why i was running around the house turning all of the lights on. she's frugal

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@Grimisham

1 year

Favorite album covers: Implodes - Reoccurring Dream (2013).

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@mattjencik

11 months

Took a month off from music because I hated what I was writing. Felt bad about it some but also knew I needed it. Turned on my 4 track the other day & found a mostly finished song with a blown-out track. Re-recorded that quickly & it’s my favorite song I’ve made in a long time

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@mattjencik

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Here's a live recording of my 90s band Hurl recorded by Bob Weston at the Empty Bottle in 1997. Our albums are up on @Bandcamp now too. If you don't know but like bands such as Mission of Burma/Touch & Go/Homestead style rock you might dig

Empty Bottle 1997, by Hurl

7 track album

hurlpittsburgh.bandcamp.com

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@mattjencik

7 years

@thedailybeast for months you were basically saying Trump couldn't win, now you're saying this? whatever

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The power of OG Blue Note pressings. You can feel this mark easily but can only hear it quietly here & there WITH headphones, through speakers in a room it’s barely noticeable. I have some OGs that look like they were skipped down a road & they sound fine @bluenoterecords

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@mattjencik

2 years

Joy Division "Closer" probably sells about 1/5 of what "Unknown Pleasures" does at the record store. To me those always seemed like records that you had to own both of. Being a Joy Division completist doesn't require owning a lot of records

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@mattjencik

3 years

is vinyl manufacturing backed-up because of king gizzard?

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@mattjencik

1 year

Found some old tape covers for R.E.M. bootlegs that I made in high school. A Friday night back then would often consist of me spending hours at Kinkos making stuff like this. Can’t remember all of the sources but I know I cut up the old family encyclopedias for some of it @remhq

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1 year

i've been playing a gibson SG for over 25 years & i just learned today that SG stands for "solid guitar"

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2 years

@speeeena "thank you chef"

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30 years. Still the best

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in the early '00s I played synth on a few songs for Dianogah on some shows in the midwest with Silkworm. I can't remember what synth it was but it had a slap bass sound that sounded just like the Seinfeld bass & I kept doing it at soundcheck until they yelled at me & made me stop

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I was mostly indifferent to the white stripes for years but then I played the same stage as them at primavera & was able to watch from the side. the chemistry that jack & meg had was unbelievable. there was a mic set up in front of meg's drums and jack would sing facing her...

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when i moved to chicago i couldn't believe that i'd see a member of the psychedelic furs walking down the street/browsing at the record shop. turned out i'd be seeing him around a lot after playing with the 'Furs or in jazz bands. he was one of my favorite parts of that band. RIP

The Psychedelic Furs

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We're heartbroken. Goodbye to the great Mars Williams. Rest well. 1955 - 2023.

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Pretty awesome set by The Cure tonight. The first 3/4 was pretty dark. I liked the new songs, they seemed very cinematic & morose. The encores were all pop tunes some I’d never heard them play before. They’ve been in my life for over 35 years now which blows my mind @thecure

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@mattjencik

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i'm slightly confused about the "tim is a terrible sounding album" discourse related to the remix. i can't remember ever hearing/reading about someone talking about how bad this record sounds until recently. it sounds similar to a lot of other records of that era. the husker du

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I have a voice memo on my phone of about 1 minute of Peter Brötzmann playing on a dock at Cropped Out in 2017. I put it on sometimes & it takes me back to sitting on a hill stoned under the night sky while he transported us all, riverboats passing by. He had a wonderful tone RIP

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@mattjencik

3 years

@nytimesmusic Did Spotify write this

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@mattjencik

3 years

I'm sure everyone has heard about the insane vinyl delays & shortages but I'm not sure you all get the pleasure of reading about the INSANE uptick in damaged vinyl that stores receive every day. Got a box of Let it Be LPs today that looked like they fell off a truck going 50MPH

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10 months

it's here

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2 years

a customer that routinely harasses employees in our store came in today & while he was shopping he got ticketed & booted in front of the store & all of us could see it happening

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@mattjencik

6 months

new don cab rips

jocelyn romo

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6 months

i see your robert fripp’s league of crafty guitarists and i raise you bob culbertson’s chapman stick orchestra

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2 years

We were listening to Terry Riley at the shop today & a co-worker asked what it was & the co-worker playing it responded "T RILES"

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@mattjencik

6 months

i have a bunch of songs with working titles like NEW ORDER, THE CURE, NEU, WIRE, TALK TALK etc... what if i actually just use those titles?

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I am so fed up with people acting like everything is back to normal and the last year and a half didn’t happen. What is wrong with people? We’re so fucked

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@OozingWound it's 3LPs but still. also it came out like 6 months ago streaming

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7 months

aside from one successful record that i played on, the most money i've ever earned from records i made was through digital sales on bandcamp and it's not even close

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The first time Guided By Voices played in Pittsburgh I remember my friends & I talking about how weird it was how old they were & they were maybe 35ish at the time

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29 days

i'm very lucky that i got to see this incredible band a few times. amazing album

MAGNET Magazine

@MAGNETMagazine

29 days

30 years ago today, #Rodan released “Rusty” ( @touchandgorec ). Still a shiner. Read our Q&A with the band’s late, great #JasonNoble :

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4 years

Somebody playing a CODEINE 45 on 33 at the record store. SUPER slow core

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3 years

should note that her dad was really cool, kind of kept his distance and let her ask the questions about the turntable etc... without butting in or anything. good guy

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@mattjencik

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@broderick i think about this every day. it's difficult not to feel like you're the only one thinking it sometimes as most people seem to be acting like everything is fine

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@mattjencik

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one of the best all-time bands

SurfSkateThrash

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The Wipers Over the Edge 13th Precinct; Portland, OR (1983) Northwest Passage: Birth of Portland’s DIY Culture

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Sold my Mosaic box at least 5 years ago with plans on getting the originals. Took longer to find this one than I expected

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@mattjencik

2 years

This Unwound news reminded me of a crazy show my band played. 4/19/1995 Columbia, MO USA Hurl, Clickitat Ikatowi, Brainiac, Unwound Best of luck to them with this reunion stuff @therealunwound

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@mattjencik

2 years

we sold 135 signed red hot chili peppers CDs in about 1 hour today

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@mattjencik

2 years

If you thought LPs were expensive before, a few of the majors just raised prices $6-8 on a bunch of releases. they've been creeping up all year & were too high as it was. insane

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A friend was on tour with Uzeda in the 90s. One of their kids was traveling with them & as they were driving into NYC probably through Newark or one of those very industrial zones he woke from a nap, looked out the window & said “BLADE RUNNER EVERYBODY DIES” & went back to sleep

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1 year

Don’t have many grail records left to find but I was finally able to check this one off the list 🙏 #THELAS

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@mattjencik

6 years

@thehill #BREAKING scum endorses scum

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1 year

my first sonic bought on tape at national record mart at the mall. still one of my favorites. i love how cranked the bass is and the cover rules @thesonicyouth

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1 year

@BruceLevenstein it's wild when you meet people that don't really engage with music in any real way. it's probably the majority of people

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