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January 18, 2010
Record stores, labels: another passing
Greg Kot at the
Chicago Tribune
posted
this obituary
about the founder of a well-known independent record store that became its own label and then went away. That culture is disappearing. Sad.
Jan 18, 2010 2:51:16 PM
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