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Gawd, I got some free Sub Pop stickers from friends at a record shop and couldn't believe how difficult it was for me to decide whether I should stick them anywhere or not. In full realization of being shallow, I am somewhat of a sticker guy and kinda developed an infatuation for them in my early 8-yr old skateboarding days... meaning, stickers were like, life man.
Or at least made stuff "look cool". I currently have a Merge sticker on the back of my mp3 player.. and have like 20more if any ilxors want some (pay fer ur own postage).
Anyways, I eventually threw the SP stickers away b/c I kinda had little respect for the label. They're great at defining their own niche, but I cannot think of a single act I like on the label. A whole bunch of bands I've listened to albums of maybe once, twice... never more. Just mediocre retro-act after another.
― Crouching Seward, Hidden Raggett (kelpolaris), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
two years pass...
They put out some bullshit, but they put out some great stuff too.
I mean
P I S S E D J E A N S
Sub Pop still got it.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
one year passes...
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Bruce Pavitt's SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988 Features Essays by Calvin Johnson, Ann Powers, Larry Reid, Gerard Cosloy, and Charles R. Cross; "The Insight Into This Period of Rock History Could Only Have Been Delivered by Bruce"—Kim Thayil, Soundgarden."
Bazillion Points Books is proud to announce the Nov. 15 release of SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988, (ISBN 978-1-935950-11-0) by Bruce Pavitt, an unprecedented, 400-page cross-genre survey of American independent music during the 1980s. Combining all nine issues of Pavitt's Subterranean Pop zine and six years of monthly Seattle Rocket newspaper columns, the book chronicles the rise of regional American indie pop, punk, hardcore, art/noise, metal, spoken word, hip hop, and rock’n roll—over 1,000 bands all told—alongside Pavitt's own path as DJ, zine editor, record store owner, music booster, and ultimately founder of Sub Pop Records.
In addition to unseen photographs by Charles Peterson and Michael Lavine, and early artwork by Charles Burns, Jad Fair, and Lynda Barry, the book includes indie perspective and regional background via original essays by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening/K Records/Dub Narcotic Sound System); Ann Powers (NPR Music; Los Angeles Times); Larry Reid (Fantagraphics); Gerard Cosloy (Conflict, Matador Records); and Charles R. Cross (the Rocket, Heavier Than Heaven).
http://www.bazillionpoints.com/shop/sub-pop-u-s-a-the-subterraneanan-pop-music-anthology-1980-1988-by-bruce-pavitt
two months pass...
three years pass...