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- Other Music was the quintessential place
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in New York City for people
that appreciated music.
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It just was a place where you were able
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to kind of search out things
that you had never heard of.
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- If I was in New York,
I would always make sure
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that I would be at Other Music
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within the first day of being there.
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Per square meter, it probably
had more interest value
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than any other shop that I
had ever been in in the world.
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- To be stocked on their shelves
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meant that a band was in good company.
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- What they did was
invaluable for people like me.
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- Write a great song in a basement,
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go play it at that club,
next thing you know,
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it's gonna be in that store.
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- People have awesome
experiences at record stores
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all over the country,
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but Other Music just cracked my head open.
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It just was like .
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There's a whole world that
you have no idea about
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and get ready to learn.
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- Do you remember this band?
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- Yeah, it had something to do...
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- Hi Rob, hi Puloma, what's going on?
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- Hey Josh.
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- Other Music, this is Josh.
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- Azonto?
- Azonto.
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- It's kind of like fast
house tempo but dancehall-y,
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but with African sort of rhythms to it.
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- Before the internet and
before iPhones or any of that,
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people trusted other people.
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- These were two tracks
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that were on a deluxe
CD set of greatest hits.
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- Yeah, he did vocals
on the original track,
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the Sam Kerridge one is really good.
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- They're kind of like
a bit Darkness vein.
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I like the Darkness, don't judge me.
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- I have a soft spot for the
Darkness, I can appreciate.
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- Talk about me when I leave.
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- The most exciting in the world for me
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is to be around people
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who have devoted a massive
amount of time to something.
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Someone listening to you,
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and hearing the stuff
that you like musically
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and then saying, "Do you know this?"
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- This is more experimental.
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It's a cool record, but
it's not his new pop record.
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- The place is reverberating.
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It's like vibrating because
you just... what you can see,
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and what you know is there
beyond what you can see,
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and it's like, whaaat?
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- I want to buy a lot.
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- Okay.
- Yes?
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- Getting your records
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into good record shops is very important.
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They're the hubs for music communities.
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- And also people who just like
listening to records all day
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deserve to have a job
where they can do that.
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People who work in record
shops are always weirdos.
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Weirdos need jobs.
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- If anybody sees me and I'm
not listening to records,
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what I want to be doing
is listening to a record.
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Even if it's a record
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that I don't necessarily
like or care about.
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I don't like to take records
off even if I hate them.
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- I still love the smell of records.
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- We can't hire anyone
over a certain height
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because the ceilings just won't allow it.
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- This has not changed pretty much
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in the 15 years I've worked here.
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- Coming to New York and just
going to shows sometimes,
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it wasn't enough.
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I wanted to be bombarded constantly,
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I wanted to have my ideas challenged.
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And I wanted to be fucked with, you know?
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- It was a place that I loved to go
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whenever I wanted to find something new
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or something I didn't know about.
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I knew that there would be someone there
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who's pretty invested,
who had listened to it.
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- We tried to have more of
this kind of a holistic view
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of all these different
things happening in music,
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in new music.
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Even if it was reissues.
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It was definitely like trying
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to be on top of what's happening now.
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- To go find out what was new
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and bands in the area and all that stuff,
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Other Music was where you had to go.
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When there was a whole batch
of new stuff on that shelf
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with a bunch of new cards
that someone had written out,
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that was a good sign I
was gonna be listening
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to something pretty exciting.
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- I would never trade
the handwritten signs.
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It's done from a place of,
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"I had to write about this right now
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"when I was listening to it
because I loved it so much."
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It's the first thing people
see if the record's new,
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so I want to come in with my personal,
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passionate endorsement,
as soon as possible.
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- Maybe this is the
best "From NYC, Made in NYC"
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hip hop album you'll hear all year.
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Solid, thick, and punchy production
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with a firm and meaty lyrical style.
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- Sammus is
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo.
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Her latest EP "Infusion"
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explores the screwed-up world of academia,
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finding peace through
video games, and more.
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Afrofuturism vibes that
carry us to the year 3000.
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- The epitome of DIY,
the couple who ran the label
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out of their Bristol home
upheld more of a punk ethos
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than many who claimed that distinction.
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- Recorded live at Matik-Matik,
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Bogota Colombia's experimental music hub.
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Folk, free jazz, tropicalia,
spoken word, it's all in there.
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- A perfect menage a trois of voice,
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sonics, and texture.
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Soaring and emotional.
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Political and pure.
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- If you only ever
buy one record ever again,
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this would be a fine choice.
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- I like curators, you know.
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I like people that are
gonna comb through it all
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and really are passionate enough
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to write 100 words on a little card
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and make sure it stays stuck to the shelf.
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- A lot of the stuff that
we feel really special about
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or personal about are things
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that we have such limited quantities on
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that you can't present it
to the whole 30,000 people
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who are reading our emails
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because we might only have 10 copies.
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And that handwritten sign
is going to turn more people
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on just coming off the street.
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- Hello.
- Hello, there's a box here.
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Other Music, it's kind of
like a religious experience
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a little bit coming here,
picking up new sounds.
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After a while they get to know your taste
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and sometimes I come in here
and just say, "Pick them."
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- This is the original cover of it,
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but I remember there was a
reissue on Rhino Records.
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I mean not Rhino, Alligator, years ago.
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My first job in a record store was,
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I was in high school
and it was career week.
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I loved the record store I used
to shop at when I was a kid
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and I'd been working a
retail job at my Aunt
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and Uncle's gift shop since I was 14.
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I love retail and I love music, I'm like,
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that's the perfect thing.
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And so I went up to the record store
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and the guy I used to shop at and I said,
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"It's career week next week.
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"I could work for free, for a week.
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"You need some help?
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"You know, I'd love to do it."
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He was like, "Sure, come on in."
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And I've been doing it ever since.
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- Wasn't that beautiful?
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That was Belle and Sebastian.
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We have some guests with us today.
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From Other Music, Chris
Vanderloo and Mr. Josh Madell.
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The reason we chose that particular album
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is that is apparently the
biggest selling record
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they've ever had in the store.
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Is that correct, gentlemen?
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- It is, yeah.
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That's from our biggest selling album.
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We've sold a few thousand copies
of that one over the years.
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- And it still continues to flow.
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Now for people that are
not in New York City,
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'cause we have to tell everybody,
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Other Music is an institution
that I buy records from
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for the last 20 years and
I'm really sad and pissed off
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that you guys are leaving.
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- Our plan is to close
Other Music on June 25th.
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I guess we have about six weeks left.
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- No, that's the truth,
closing on the 25th.
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- When we first announced it,
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a regular customer told me
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"It was the Tweet heard around the world."
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- It's sad.
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It's like a home for a lot of people.
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- So they're definitely gonna close?
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Oh, that's really a drag.
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Wow, what a drag, fuck.
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- The way things are and
the way people consume music
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is on a certain trajectory
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and it does not favor Other Music.
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- When's your last day?
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It sucks the store is closing.
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- The 25th.
- The 25th?
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- Yeah.
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- I've been coming here since I was 11.
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- Wow.
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- Just wanted you to know, I
made a special trip from L.A.
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to come by.
- Oh really?
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- Just 'cause I'm gonna miss you guys.
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- Wow.
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- You guys should have a therapist here.
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- Yeah.
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- Every person wants to
talk to me for 10 minutes.
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They wanna know what I'm gonna do now.
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- To me this store is synonymous
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with everything that's
cool about New York.
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Bands were probably formed
because of the music
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people got exposed to at this store.
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I think you can't quantify it.
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- Let's go
back to the early years.
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Where did you guys meet?
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- We all met and we all actually worked
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at Kim's Underground.
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- And what
was Kim's Underground?
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- Kim's was a video chain.
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Pretty much it was always
video rentals and sales.
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- Mr. Kim was a businessman.
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He had a dry cleaners.
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Somehow this really crazy
New York film buff guy
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convinced him, let's do a
little video store here.
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Everything from experimental
film to, you know,
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just the history of indie cinema
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and they would even bootleg videotapes,
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you know if they couldn't
find real copies.
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The store was very successful.
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But I think Mr. Kim just saw it
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as an opportunity more than anything
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and Kim's had a video
store and a record store.
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We were in the back of
a popular video store.
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- At the height of Kim's success,
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there were I think four locations?
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And I'm pretty sure on the books,
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he had about five employees.
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And these were stores that were open
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from like noon to midnight
every day, seven days a week.
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So, you can imagine
that there were probably
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a few more employees than that.
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And when Chris moved here
and got the job there,
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and Mr. Kim was like, "We
pay cash", or whatever,
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he was like, "No."
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He was like, "What if
the IRS comes after me?
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"I can't be working under-the-table."
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- That really just
speaks to the difference
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between the two of them,
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because I remember Josh
was working at Kim's
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and he was like, "Look at
all this money I have."
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He just had wads of cash everywhere.
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- So then you met this
other character, Josh.
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- Josh was working there.
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When I moved to New York Josh
was already working there
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and our other partner Jeff
Gibson was working there as well.
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Jeff and I had always talked about,
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we could do this ourselves
and do it even better
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and with more freedom to buy
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what we wanted to buy
and carry more things.
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I think I just told Kim that
I was moving on, you know.
255
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I didn't tell anybody about our plans.
256
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I called him afterwards and
told him we were opening.
257
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- He really freaked out
Jeff, our partner here.
258
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Jeff was I think genuinely terrified
259
00:14:17,310 --> 00:14:19,750
that Mr. Kim was gonna try to kill us
260
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when we left and started this place.
261
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I don't think Mr. Kim was
considering killing us.
262
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- By the time we came
to Josh about joining us,
263
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we had already kind of picked the space.
264
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Obviously we wanted to be downtown
265
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with all the other record
stores around here.
266
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- It is significant, the actual location.
267
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Astor Place is kind of the
village green of that hood.
268
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Downtown New York, above SoHo,
269
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the kind of commercial
side of the East Village.
270
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But also if you keep going west,
271
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you're heading into kind of
old school '60s bohemia land,
272
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and to your east is Mercury
Lounge, isn't very far away.
273
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Brownies wasn't very far away.
274
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It's also NYU, you feel
this sense of the energy
275
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of downtown New York City.
276
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- Got a sublease on this
place on East 4th Street,
277
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and painted the floor,
278
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put some racks up and just
started buying records
279
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and it took off very quickly for us.
280
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- Here it is.
281
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This is the very first sales
we ever did, handwritten.
282
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We did $362.98.
283
00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:29,450
- So, what do these guys go and do?
284
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They decide to open a record
store across the street
285
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from the biggest record
store in New York City
286
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at the time called Tower Records.
287
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An institution!
288
00:15:38,052 --> 00:15:41,550
What madness led you to that location?
289
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- I had a guy come in, he was like,
290
00:15:43,147 --> 00:15:45,070
"So what are you guys selling here?"
291
00:15:45,070 --> 00:15:47,070
And we were like, "We're selling music."
292
00:15:48,060 --> 00:15:51,527
And he's like, "Have you
looked out your window?"
293
00:15:52,530 --> 00:15:54,450
- There was a giant Tower Records
294
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literally across the street,
295
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so, you could buy anything
that a major label
296
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had to offer at Tower
Records across the street.
297
00:16:09,899 --> 00:16:13,662
- Hello Tower,
hello Tower, hello Tower,
298
00:16:13,662 --> 00:16:16,867
hello Tower, hello Tower, hello Tower,
299
00:16:16,867 --> 00:16:19,642
hello Tower, hello Tower, hello Tower,
300
00:16:19,642 --> 00:16:23,892
hello Tower, hello Tower,
hello Tower, hello Tower!
301
00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:27,000
- We had a ton of
people coming here all the time
302
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000
saying, "How can you do
it? "It seems so crazy."
303
00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,683
And it always seemed like
they didn't quite get it.
304
00:16:30,683 --> 00:16:33,900
- I always thought of it as
kind of like the curated,
305
00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:38,450
cool place across from
this massive mega-store.
306
00:16:38,450 --> 00:16:40,650
- I was like, "This is genius."
307
00:16:40,650 --> 00:16:41,850
That's so smart of them.
308
00:16:41,850 --> 00:16:45,880
It was subversive in its
geographical location.
309
00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,090
And from that day forward,
310
00:16:48,090 --> 00:16:50,573
I never went into Tower Records again.
311
00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:56,340
- It made East 4th in between
Broadway and Lafayette,
312
00:16:56,340 --> 00:16:59,340
that little block was a
very important music block.
313
00:16:59,340 --> 00:17:02,790
- Music consumers and music
lovers from all over the world,
314
00:17:02,790 --> 00:17:04,610
Tower was a magnet for them.
315
00:17:04,610 --> 00:17:06,037
And we just happened to
be across the street,
316
00:17:06,037 --> 00:17:08,210
so they came to us too.
317
00:17:08,210 --> 00:17:09,280
- Jeff came up with the name
318
00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,510
and he said that that was
how he always would describe
319
00:17:11,510 --> 00:17:14,247
what he was into to his parents' friends.
320
00:17:14,247 --> 00:17:16,930
"I listen to other music, something else."
321
00:17:16,930 --> 00:17:18,390
There's a sense that underground music
322
00:17:18,390 --> 00:17:20,460
or something is for the snotty kids.
323
00:17:20,460 --> 00:17:23,530
But we try to have a little
more sophisticated look
324
00:17:23,530 --> 00:17:24,710
at what that could mean.
325
00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:28,010
There's such a broad spectrum
of experimental music,
326
00:17:28,010 --> 00:17:32,690
from jazz and classical to
noise to electronic stuff
327
00:17:32,690 --> 00:17:36,030
that may come out of dance
clubs, but pushes boundaries.
328
00:17:36,030 --> 00:17:40,250
We just always wanted to be on the edge
329
00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:41,937
of what was happening in culture.
330
00:17:44,620 --> 00:17:46,380
- Growing up going to Other Music,
331
00:17:46,380 --> 00:17:48,220
I literally discovered genres
332
00:17:48,220 --> 00:17:50,470
because of the way they
would organize the music.
333
00:17:50,470 --> 00:17:52,300
You know, you'd go to other record stores
334
00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,470
and you might go to the world section.
335
00:17:55,470 --> 00:17:57,640
Whereas Other Music had
these more specific ways
336
00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:58,900
of dividing up music.
337
00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:00,700
- We needed a
different way to organize it
338
00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:02,490
that was the way record
collectors thought.
339
00:18:02,490 --> 00:18:04,090
That was the way people, you know,
340
00:18:04,090 --> 00:18:06,380
passionate fans bought music.
341
00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:07,810
It wasn't just a list.
342
00:18:07,810 --> 00:18:09,850
- A lot of international music,
343
00:18:09,850 --> 00:18:12,500
a lot of European pop.
344
00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:16,550
- Electronica, krautrock, experimental,
345
00:18:16,550 --> 00:18:18,377
and then whatever the hell called "In."
346
00:18:18,377 --> 00:18:20,960
- "In" is where you would find what?
347
00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,750
I don't know, Galaxie 500?
348
00:18:22,750 --> 00:18:25,400
- The first section I
walked into was "Out."
349
00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:26,373
- What was "Out?"
350
00:18:28,317 --> 00:18:30,640
- "Out" was where you'd find Stockhausen?
351
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,717
Okay, good, I got it, I got through that.
352
00:18:32,717 --> 00:18:37,420
- "Then", which was bands
that do not exist any longer.
353
00:18:37,420 --> 00:18:40,510
- And I was like, "What,
what the heck is this?"
354
00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:41,650
And I just couldn't figure it out
355
00:18:41,650 --> 00:18:44,520
and I got so freaked and I just left.
356
00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:45,570
- In that "Then" section,
357
00:18:45,570 --> 00:18:49,670
there would be classic punk
along with folk reissues.
358
00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:51,140
It's just trying to find a different way
359
00:18:51,140 --> 00:18:55,130
to both cater to the
passionate fans that came in
360
00:18:55,130 --> 00:18:57,270
and also I think just
kind of surprise people,
361
00:18:57,270 --> 00:18:58,103
shake them up,
362
00:18:58,103 --> 00:18:59,400
make them think about
music in a different way.
363
00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,510
I think our most famous
section in that realm
364
00:19:03,510 --> 00:19:05,087
would be "La Decadanse."
365
00:19:07,317 --> 00:19:09,410
- The "Decadanse" section
366
00:19:09,410 --> 00:19:11,510
was thoroughly confusing to me at first.
367
00:19:11,510 --> 00:19:13,970
I really didn't know what that was.
368
00:19:13,970 --> 00:19:17,147
- Jeff was particularly
passionate about Serge Gainsbourg
369
00:19:17,147 --> 00:19:18,500
and was married to a Belgian,
370
00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:21,947
so he was much more familiar
with a lot of European music
371
00:19:21,947 --> 00:19:23,520
and he would bring in these imports
372
00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:24,870
and they were very hard to come by
373
00:19:24,870 --> 00:19:26,220
and he was just so excited about it
374
00:19:26,220 --> 00:19:27,620
he basically made everyone at the store
375
00:19:27,620 --> 00:19:28,790
love Serge Gainsbourg.
376
00:19:28,790 --> 00:19:31,170
I didn't know about him
and that's how I found out,
377
00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,240
and then eventually the
records got reissued.
378
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,030
- It was like a strange
configuration of French pop,
379
00:19:37,030 --> 00:19:39,630
and easy listening was
kind of coming back then,
380
00:19:39,630 --> 00:19:41,750
so stuff like Martin Denny or Esquivel,
381
00:19:41,750 --> 00:19:43,629
things like that we sold so many of.
382
00:19:56,410 --> 00:19:57,270
- The early days,
383
00:19:57,270 --> 00:19:59,630
they didn't have any paid
employees for quite some time.
384
00:19:59,630 --> 00:20:01,960
- We still were slow in
terms of hiring people.
385
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,242
We still were working seven days a week.
386
00:20:04,242 --> 00:20:05,540
We hired people when we had to,
387
00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:07,600
but we it's not like we had deep pockets.
388
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,293
So it was just trying to make it work.
389
00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:13,187
- We had just started
dating, so he would be like,
390
00:20:13,187 --> 00:20:14,247
"Well, come to the store.
391
00:20:14,247 --> 00:20:16,090
"We'll have a store date."
392
00:20:16,090 --> 00:20:19,690
Which was kind of like
asking me to work for free.
393
00:20:19,690 --> 00:20:20,840
- You had to have a store date
394
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,320
where you came and you had takeout
395
00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,312
and you stood at the counter.
396
00:20:23,312 --> 00:20:25,160
In between ringing up customers,
397
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,250
you might actually talk for a minute.
398
00:20:27,250 --> 00:20:28,780
- Yeah, we just sat there
399
00:20:28,780 --> 00:20:30,780
and taped a lot of records and hung out.
400
00:20:32,370 --> 00:20:36,790
- Weekends, Lydia and Dawn
would work the register
401
00:20:36,790 --> 00:20:37,720
and we would be out with customers.
402
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,270
Josh and I would be out with customers.
403
00:20:39,270 --> 00:20:41,050
Jeff would be pricing used things
404
00:20:41,050 --> 00:20:42,950
and other stuff that had just come in.
405
00:20:43,950 --> 00:20:47,710
- With the Monks, it is not
in print in the United States.
406
00:20:47,710 --> 00:20:51,490
It's available only from a
German label called Repertoire.
407
00:20:51,490 --> 00:20:55,040
So we have to get them when we can.
408
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,720
- Jeff was incredibly
knowledgeable about music,
409
00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,390
really passionate, constantly
finding new things,
410
00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:05,080
always finding some new
obscure reissue or something.
411
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,560
Chris dealt with the business
412
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,410
and also was just very customer-oriented.
413
00:21:10,410 --> 00:21:12,920
He's always been someone
who can spend all day
414
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,210
just talking to the
customers, helping people out.
415
00:21:15,210 --> 00:21:17,140
He's very service-oriented.
416
00:21:17,140 --> 00:21:19,510
- They incorporate a lot
of brass instruments,
417
00:21:19,510 --> 00:21:20,343
and their earlier stuff
418
00:21:20,343 --> 00:21:23,180
used to be a little more
eastern European sounding.
419
00:21:23,180 --> 00:21:24,880
- That was a little harder for me.
420
00:21:26,117 --> 00:21:29,233
I don't think I was instantly
as personable and easy-going.
421
00:21:30,420 --> 00:21:32,760
- Josh was always
sitting at his back desk,
422
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,970
listening to people who came in and out.
423
00:21:34,970 --> 00:21:37,356
He did all the training,
he was very strict.
424
00:21:37,356 --> 00:21:38,320
- I don't think he had any hair then.
425
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,190
I think I think you just shaved your head.
426
00:21:40,190 --> 00:21:42,710
- Oh yeah, I had a super short crew cut.
427
00:21:42,710 --> 00:21:45,480
- He kind of had
that D.C. look about him.
428
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,950
- Josh was always looking for ways
429
00:21:47,950 --> 00:21:50,800
to have the shop help the community.
430
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,060
In-stores, releases that
the shop could put out
431
00:21:54,060 --> 00:21:56,211
that maybe no other labels would.
432
00:21:56,211 --> 00:21:58,020
- He's two steps ahead of you
433
00:21:58,020 --> 00:21:59,400
when you're presenting something to him.
434
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,317
He's very linear, already has
it worked out in his head.
435
00:22:01,317 --> 00:22:03,510
He's just like, "Let's go."
436
00:22:03,510 --> 00:22:04,760
- I'm thinking about going outside
437
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,200
and trying to get that flag down.
438
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,340
- I don't know
if I would, I don't know.
439
00:22:08,340 --> 00:22:10,963
- Today is the day to do it.
- I mean it's, yeah, try, try.
440
00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:16,210
- In some ways they're polar opposites,
441
00:22:16,210 --> 00:22:18,780
but they've both been
really great to work for.
442
00:22:18,780 --> 00:22:21,490
I mean, I would not have
been here for 15-plus years
443
00:22:21,490 --> 00:22:23,470
if I didn't like working for them.
444
00:22:23,470 --> 00:22:26,470
- Is there some ceremonial way
445
00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:28,020
you're supposed to fold a flag?
446
00:22:28,020 --> 00:22:30,740
You can't just throw it on
top of a garbage bag, can you?
447
00:22:30,740 --> 00:22:33,347
- It's one of those things
where it transcends a job.
448
00:22:33,347 --> 00:22:35,022
These people become your family.
449
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,590
- Duane worked at CMJ.
450
00:22:40,590 --> 00:22:42,960
- He was my intern.
- He was an intern at CMJ
451
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,130
and so he would review
pretty much anything.
452
00:22:46,130 --> 00:22:47,900
He could find an angle on everything.
453
00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:51,400
For a young kid that
was pretty surprising.
454
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,850
- I was just so excited and happy
455
00:22:53,850 --> 00:22:56,930
that a store like this existed.
456
00:22:56,930 --> 00:23:00,650
So immediately after Lydia
told me to apply here, I did.
457
00:23:00,650 --> 00:23:04,490
- All of them had
encyclopedic music knowledge,
458
00:23:04,490 --> 00:23:07,550
but Duane was definitely full-spectrum.
459
00:23:07,550 --> 00:23:10,640
Like, "Just get Duane,"
because he's gonna know.
460
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,190
- Check this out.
461
00:23:12,190 --> 00:23:14,970
The original version of
"Bette Davis Eyes" is on here.
462
00:23:14,970 --> 00:23:17,156
- What?
- And it's a country song.
463
00:23:17,156 --> 00:23:19,962
- Shut up.
- Yeah, Jackie DeShannon.
464
00:23:19,962 --> 00:23:22,169
She wrote "Put A Little
Love in Your Heart"
465
00:23:22,169 --> 00:23:26,430
and did that really cool
Laurel Canyon album.
466
00:23:26,430 --> 00:23:29,103
When I came in, I wanted
to learn about the sections
467
00:23:29,103 --> 00:23:29,936
that were there.
468
00:23:29,936 --> 00:23:31,150
But then what was also great
469
00:23:31,150 --> 00:23:32,380
was that there was a lot of room
470
00:23:32,380 --> 00:23:35,187
for me to bring my aesthetic in.
471
00:23:35,187 --> 00:23:36,600
It was really, really cool to be able
472
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,737
to build a hip hop
section from scratch here.
473
00:23:50,830 --> 00:23:52,970
- Beans worked here
before Anti Pop Consortium
474
00:23:52,970 --> 00:23:54,900
put out their first record.
475
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:56,590
The day Beans arrived,
476
00:23:56,590 --> 00:23:59,520
everybody was like, "Who
the fuck is that guy?"
477
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,360
- Beans would sit there in the corner
478
00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,170
with his huge mirrored shades
479
00:24:03,170 --> 00:24:05,560
and you could never see
where his eyes were ever.
480
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,600
And he would just be like, "What's up?"
481
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,180
- Beans is a hero of mine
482
00:24:10,180 --> 00:24:12,420
and the fact that I could just walk in
483
00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:14,177
and be like, "Oh I can't.
484
00:24:14,177 --> 00:24:15,750
"There's Beans, I can't talk to Beans."
485
00:24:15,750 --> 00:24:19,080
- He was the only staff
member I think we ever had
486
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,160
who would just relentlessly
suggest his own music.
487
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,280
It just didn't matter what
you said you were into.
488
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,067
He'd always be like, "Have you checked out
489
00:24:27,067 --> 00:24:29,102
"the new Anti Pop Consortium?"
490
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,640
- This is the type of business
491
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:39,110
where it encouraged
artists to be on staff.
492
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:41,960
It encouraged artists to be artists.
493
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,900
- It was great at first 'cause
the exact amount of time
494
00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,150
I could take off from Other
was the amount of time
495
00:24:47,150 --> 00:24:48,070
we would go on tour.
496
00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:50,620
Just in the beginning, three
weeks or something like that.
497
00:24:50,620 --> 00:24:53,640
- People who work here
don't make a lot of money,
498
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,220
but working here enables
them to do other things
499
00:24:56,220 --> 00:24:58,360
that they might be connected with,
500
00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,260
and this maybe helps them.
501
00:25:00,260 --> 00:25:03,280
- Other Music was a
tough place to get a job.
502
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,400
It was really stacked with people
503
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,313
who'd been there for a decade or more.
504
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,200
- What we did all day was talk
about records on the floor.
505
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,150
You had to wanna do that and
you had to have deep knowledge.
506
00:25:14,150 --> 00:25:17,370
- I know dance music, I know
soul music, I know reggae.
507
00:25:17,370 --> 00:25:20,020
But I didn't know indie rock so much.
508
00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:21,790
So I was a little nervous
going into the interview.
509
00:25:21,790 --> 00:25:24,870
But aside from that,
I knew I knew my shit.
510
00:25:24,870 --> 00:25:27,130
One of my all-time
favorites, Keith Hudson.
511
00:25:27,130 --> 00:25:29,620
Super spooky reggae,
512
00:25:29,620 --> 00:25:34,170
but a no less spiritually-minded
left-of-center vocalist.
513
00:25:34,170 --> 00:25:35,825
- You sold me on that one right away.
514
00:25:35,825 --> 00:25:38,710
- Absolutely, classic record.
515
00:25:38,710 --> 00:25:40,200
The first couple years,
516
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,730
it was like nowhere I
had ever worked before.
517
00:25:43,730 --> 00:25:45,240
It was crazy.
518
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,590
Just from the amount of personalities
519
00:25:47,590 --> 00:25:49,820
you had to interact with on the staff
520
00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:51,610
and then the amount of people
521
00:25:51,610 --> 00:25:53,020
that would come into the store,
522
00:25:53,020 --> 00:25:58,020
and that amount of traffic
coming to you all day long going,
523
00:25:59,297 --> 00:26:01,112
"What do you like?" or
"What does this sound like?"
524
00:26:01,112 --> 00:26:04,480
It was just like, "Oh
my God, I'm exhausted."
525
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:05,313
- Do you need anything?
526
00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:07,050
Yeah.
- Do you have Depeche Mode?
527
00:26:07,050 --> 00:26:09,240
- On vinyl?
- It's none of these.
528
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,010
- Yeah, it's
not these unfortunately.
529
00:26:11,010 --> 00:26:14,310
Depeche Mode, it's the one
with the crazy beak person.
530
00:26:14,310 --> 00:26:15,590
- I'm not seeing it.
531
00:26:15,590 --> 00:26:17,330
- It looks like a bare-chested person
532
00:26:17,330 --> 00:26:19,800
and the beak is crossing like this.
533
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,800
Can you tell me the title one more time?
534
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,410
Chris, "Walking In My Shoes."
535
00:26:25,410 --> 00:26:27,030
Is it possible it's a single?
536
00:26:27,030 --> 00:26:29,098
It is on this record.
537
00:26:29,098 --> 00:26:30,810
- It's a specific thing I want.
538
00:26:30,810 --> 00:26:33,050
- No, I get it,
because you want that cover art
539
00:26:33,050 --> 00:26:34,910
and there's remixes or something?
540
00:26:34,910 --> 00:26:36,890
Oh no wonder, it's a collectible.
541
00:26:36,890 --> 00:26:38,790
It's a $75 record.
542
00:26:38,790 --> 00:26:40,510
- Okay.
- Yeah.
543
00:26:40,510 --> 00:26:42,900
- Over time they knew what
was in your record collection.
544
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:44,360
They knew what excited you.
545
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,770
You knew what excited them.
546
00:26:46,770 --> 00:26:50,020
So the conversations just went
to deeper and deeper levels.
547
00:26:50,020 --> 00:26:51,480
- People love stories.
548
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:52,760
People love a good story.
549
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,700
That's one thing I learned
from Duane Harriott.
550
00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:57,880
If people love the
story, they would buy it.
551
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,350
- The vocalist from the Spinners,
552
00:26:59,350 --> 00:27:01,000
it was one of his last 12-inches
553
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,810
that he made before he died,
because he died on stage.
554
00:27:03,810 --> 00:27:05,461
He had a heart attack on stage.
555
00:27:05,461 --> 00:27:07,672
That's pretty gangster.
556
00:27:07,672 --> 00:27:11,500
That's some gangster shit though, come on.
557
00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,870
- It wasn't putting your
taste on someone else.
558
00:27:13,870 --> 00:27:16,410
It's really about talking to the customer
559
00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:18,670
and getting what they're looking for
560
00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:20,720
and understanding where
they're coming from.
561
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,070
And being able to take what they tell you
562
00:27:23,070 --> 00:27:25,420
and recommend something that they'll like.
563
00:27:25,420 --> 00:27:29,700
- Holy shit, this one is amazing.
564
00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:31,350
- Martin Newell is the gentleman
565
00:27:31,350 --> 00:27:33,240
who is in Cleaners From Venus.
566
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,596
It's like a lo-fi, kind
of indie pop thing.
567
00:27:36,596 --> 00:27:38,229
- I'm looking for something
that's like Lou Reed,
568
00:27:38,229 --> 00:27:40,359
but I probably never heard of.
569
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:41,890
- Something by Loud Reed?
- That's like Lou Reed?
570
00:27:41,890 --> 00:27:44,150
- That's like Lou Reed.
- Oh, like Lou Reed, okay.
571
00:27:44,150 --> 00:27:45,743
- Oh do you have that?
572
00:27:45,743 --> 00:27:47,950
It's kind of like Gina X Performance
573
00:27:47,950 --> 00:27:50,700
but with more of a Grace
Jones sort of feel to it.
574
00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:51,533
- What else you have?
575
00:27:51,533 --> 00:27:52,960
Give me something fresh.
576
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,240
You have something fresh?
577
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,560
- If you really wanna be good out there,
578
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,330
you've gotta be really
up on so much stuff.
579
00:27:59,330 --> 00:28:01,570
Even just being away for a month.
580
00:28:01,570 --> 00:28:04,777
You can just be like, "I
don't know, it looks good,
581
00:28:04,777 --> 00:28:06,940
"it's on a good label or something."
582
00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:11,050
- The rite of passage
for the new clerk at OM
583
00:28:11,050 --> 00:28:15,710
was to start at "In," grab a legal pad,
584
00:28:15,710 --> 00:28:20,337
and write down every single
band in every single section.
585
00:28:23,810 --> 00:28:26,363
- I wrote every card in the entire store.
586
00:28:26,363 --> 00:28:28,350
I think it took me like two days to do it
587
00:28:28,350 --> 00:28:29,310
or something like that.
588
00:28:29,310 --> 00:28:31,927
- Just that alone was just like, "Whoah."
589
00:28:32,897 --> 00:28:35,290
I thought I knew a lot.
590
00:28:35,290 --> 00:28:37,110
- I didn't know really a single artist
591
00:28:37,110 --> 00:28:38,890
in the soul/funk section.
592
00:28:38,890 --> 00:28:41,440
I was like, "I guess I'll learn."
593
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,940
You would start to become familiar
594
00:28:42,940 --> 00:28:44,960
with all of the names of
the artists in the shop.
595
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,487
So if someone came in and they were like,
596
00:28:46,487 --> 00:28:49,030
"Hey do you have Chrissy Zebby Tembo?"
597
00:28:49,030 --> 00:28:49,863
You'd be like, "Oh yeah."
598
00:28:49,863 --> 00:28:54,270
- I just knew everything in
the store right off the bat.
599
00:28:54,270 --> 00:28:55,353
Just kidding.
600
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,460
- The music that we carry here
601
00:29:00,460 --> 00:29:02,500
is often obscure and confusing,
602
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,710
from the sounds to the
packaging to the distribution.
603
00:29:05,710 --> 00:29:07,000
Although our buying philosophy
604
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,440
is not to simply unearth the unknown,
605
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,724
our passion for new
music and new directions
606
00:29:11,724 --> 00:29:14,830
often leads us into
uncharted waters where,
607
00:29:14,830 --> 00:29:17,640
frankly, we feel most comfortable.
608
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,680
One of our main purposes is to make new
609
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,283
or forgotten music available
to a wider audience.
610
00:29:23,190 --> 00:29:25,000
- Even in electronic music,
611
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,030
an area where I thought
I was quite well-versed,
612
00:29:28,030 --> 00:29:31,320
there would be stuff that
I had never heard of.
613
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,510
And I often found myself buying stuff
614
00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:35,163
that was completely different.
615
00:29:36,210 --> 00:29:37,690
- One thing about our store,
616
00:29:37,690 --> 00:29:39,660
we always hired people partially
617
00:29:39,660 --> 00:29:41,440
because they were into
stuff that was different
618
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,380
from what we were into
619
00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:45,920
and they could add another
side to the selection.
620
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,490
- It kind of reminds me almost
of Bill Fox or something
621
00:29:49,490 --> 00:29:54,190
where it's sort of Dylan-y
but with tons of hooks.
622
00:29:54,190 --> 00:29:56,010
I think you'll love it.
623
00:29:56,010 --> 00:29:59,200
They always gave me a ton of freedom
624
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,570
to just figure out what
I was interested in.
625
00:30:02,570 --> 00:30:03,403
They were never like,
626
00:30:03,403 --> 00:30:05,120
"Oh you gotta order this,
you gotta order this."
627
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,693
They're like, "We trust you
and we trust your taste."
628
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,000
- Jackson C. Frank was a
tragic '60s folk singer.
629
00:30:21,030 --> 00:30:22,780
He had a pretty miserable life
630
00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:26,913
but he made one absolutely
flawless beautiful record.
631
00:30:33,216 --> 00:30:35,850
- I just remember seeing
it in the bin one day.
632
00:30:35,850 --> 00:30:37,140
I was like, "Let's check this out."
633
00:30:37,140 --> 00:30:40,992
And just as soon as I put
on, within the first note,
634
00:30:40,992 --> 00:30:42,747
it's just like, "Oh my God."
635
00:31:01,203 --> 00:31:02,860
- Michael Klausman brought
636
00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:07,860
a lot of cobweb reissue
vibes to the store.
637
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,010
- Dan Hougland and Chris
O'Rourke who was a manager there,
638
00:31:11,010 --> 00:31:13,276
kinda went up to Michael
and they were like,
639
00:31:13,276 --> 00:31:14,340
"You know you can play some CDs,
640
00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:16,190
"you don't have to play NPR all day."
641
00:31:22,610 --> 00:31:25,720
- You could live in kind of
a dream world of esoterica.
642
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,450
- Stuff like Le Orme, an
Italian psych band I got into.
643
00:31:29,450 --> 00:31:31,470
I think Duane recommended it to me once.
644
00:31:36,163 --> 00:31:38,080
- Os Mutantes, at one point
645
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,110
we could not keep those
things in the store.
646
00:31:40,110 --> 00:31:42,493
- I found that solo Masaki Batoh record.
647
00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:46,567
I was so excited and I grabbed that like,
648
00:31:46,567 --> 00:31:49,230
"Oh my god, I can't believe this exists."
649
00:31:49,230 --> 00:31:52,420
- We would also stock everybody
from Pantha Du Prince,
650
00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:55,220
Blossom Toes, Peanut Butter Wolf.
651
00:31:55,220 --> 00:31:58,790
- A CD by Tristan Perich, but
instead of a compact disc,
652
00:31:58,790 --> 00:32:00,540
it had components that made a loop.
653
00:32:00,540 --> 00:32:02,667
We sold hundreds of them.
654
00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:06,007
- B.J. Snowden.
655
00:32:06,007 --> 00:32:07,828
- "Songs In The Key Of Z."
656
00:32:07,828 --> 00:32:09,764
- This Morton Feldman recording.
657
00:32:09,764 --> 00:32:11,200
- The Shintaro Sakamoto,
658
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,810
the Nude Beach record, the Ex Cops record.
659
00:32:13,810 --> 00:32:14,920
- 75 Dollar Bill.
660
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,080
- Quasimoto.
- Oneohtrix Point Never.
661
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,210
- Julianna Barwick.
662
00:32:18,210 --> 00:32:20,280
- Karen Dalton, Vashti Bunyan.
663
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:21,720
- The Vashti Bunyan reissue.
664
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,540
- Vashti Bunyan, "Just
Another Diamond Day."
665
00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:25,560
- Dungen, we reviewed Dungen.
666
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,350
- That Aphrodite's Child record.
667
00:32:28,350 --> 00:32:31,560
- Arthur Russell, minidiscs,
cassettes, CDs, whatever.
668
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,250
- Digital experimental
minimal music, you know?
669
00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,240
But patterned, patterned minimal music.
670
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,233
- Harmonia, Cluster, even that
Velvet Tinmine compilation.
671
00:32:41,230 --> 00:32:42,960
- Other Music is the only retail store
672
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,130
where somebody would put on Diamanda Galas
673
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:48,800
to clear the floor at closing
time to get everybody out.
674
00:32:50,325 --> 00:32:51,158
- Hey guys,
675
00:32:51,158 --> 00:32:53,270
we're gonna be closing
up in a few minutes.
676
00:32:54,820 --> 00:32:56,173
- That foghorn record.
677
00:32:56,173 --> 00:32:57,564
- I loved that foghorn record.
678
00:32:57,564 --> 00:33:00,343
- There was a record of foghorns
and it was so beautiful.
679
00:33:04,735 --> 00:33:06,818
- It's suddenly so quiet.
680
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,900
- Let me flip this record.
681
00:33:14,870 --> 00:33:17,733
It's nice how it steps up,
it just like, steps up.
682
00:33:20,690 --> 00:33:22,660
- The art of learning what people
683
00:33:22,660 --> 00:33:24,450
wanna listen to at a certain time of day
684
00:33:24,450 --> 00:33:26,340
and putting records on the stereo,
685
00:33:26,340 --> 00:33:29,530
it's such a difficult thing
that I feel like no algorithm
686
00:33:29,530 --> 00:33:31,453
will ever be able to recreate.
687
00:33:37,330 --> 00:33:39,563
We would be constantly
listening to records in the shop
688
00:33:39,563 --> 00:33:42,000
and as soon as people heard it,
689
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,118
they were just, like,
this is something I need.
690
00:33:50,277 --> 00:33:52,140
- Excuse me, do you know
who sings this song?
691
00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:52,973
- What's that?
692
00:33:52,973 --> 00:33:54,230
- Do you know whose song this is?
693
00:33:54,230 --> 00:33:55,920
- I don't, what did you just put on?
694
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,973
- Is it for sale?
- It's for sale.
695
00:33:57,973 --> 00:33:59,496
If you want it, I can
take it off the turntable.
696
00:33:59,496 --> 00:34:01,030
- Thanks!
697
00:34:01,030 --> 00:34:02,850
- So good it sold right away.
698
00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:16,573
- Yeah, aren't there no more rock stars?
699
00:34:17,910 --> 00:34:19,434
- He didn't get the message,
he's one of the last ones.
700
00:34:19,434 --> 00:34:21,618
- Him and Dave Grohl are fighting
701
00:34:21,618 --> 00:34:23,755
to be the very last one ever.
- Exactly, those two are.
702
00:34:23,755 --> 00:34:26,030
They're two sides of the same coin.
703
00:34:26,030 --> 00:34:29,310
- I just come sometimes to
look at the wall of vinyl.
704
00:34:29,310 --> 00:34:32,310
It gives me this great warm feeling.
705
00:34:32,310 --> 00:34:36,243
I grew up as a girl collecting records
706
00:34:36,243 --> 00:34:38,710
from when I was very, very small,
707
00:34:38,710 --> 00:34:42,240
and there was always
a lot of way older men
708
00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:45,020
than me being condescending about records.
709
00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:48,395
But I didn't get that vibe here.
710
00:34:48,395 --> 00:34:50,730
- There were girls there, you know.
711
00:34:50,730 --> 00:34:51,770
There were girls there
712
00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:54,300
and they hired women and it was great.
713
00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,940
- That's a rarity at a record store,
714
00:34:56,940 --> 00:34:58,430
as an employee and as a customer,
715
00:34:58,430 --> 00:35:01,040
to have ladies behind the counter.
716
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,410
- You would definitely see way more men
717
00:35:03,410 --> 00:35:06,817
walk in through the doors, but
whenever a woman walked in,
718
00:35:06,817 --> 00:35:10,040
it wasn't like, "She doesn't
know anything about music."
719
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,590
- I would compare
it to dark synth type stuff.
720
00:35:14,590 --> 00:35:17,860
- I would go there and do research.
721
00:35:17,860 --> 00:35:19,290
I didn't know any other people
722
00:35:19,290 --> 00:35:22,570
really who were as nerdy as I
was about music, as obsessive.
723
00:35:22,570 --> 00:35:24,700
I had this rock encyclopedia
724
00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:27,590
and I would get in bed
at night and read it,
725
00:35:27,590 --> 00:35:29,980
and going to Other Music
was an extension of that.
726
00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:31,987
It was like, "Okay,
I've done some homework
727
00:35:31,987 --> 00:35:34,783
"and some reading and
now I can go to class."
728
00:35:34,783 --> 00:35:36,220
- Hello.
729
00:35:36,220 --> 00:35:37,950
Excellent choice.
- Oh yeah.
730
00:35:37,950 --> 00:35:39,383
- You can tell she's from New York.
731
00:35:39,383 --> 00:35:41,127
- I could see that you're from New York.
732
00:35:41,127 --> 00:35:43,340
- She can see that you're from New York?
733
00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:45,440
- Visually, visual culture happening.
734
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,090
You, me, cats, I went
to college in Queens.
735
00:35:48,090 --> 00:35:51,560
- Managing Other Music, it was
like herding a bunch of cats,
736
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,833
but super nerdy weird cats.
737
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,850
- Do you wanna do push-ups?
738
00:35:56,850 --> 00:35:57,761
- Yeah, bro.
739
00:35:57,761 --> 00:35:59,170
You wanna get swole bro?
740
00:35:59,170 --> 00:36:00,080
I got this bro.
741
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,383
Alright, we're gonna clap
our hands when we get up.
742
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,527
- I remember so often I would walk in
743
00:36:04,527 --> 00:36:07,347
there and be like, "How
did you guys get hired?
744
00:36:07,347 --> 00:36:09,449
"I know you don't have a resume.
745
00:36:09,449 --> 00:36:11,330
"How are you all here?"
746
00:36:11,330 --> 00:36:13,230
- I think what we weren't
as good at sometimes was,
747
00:36:13,230 --> 00:36:14,063
we would always try to see,
748
00:36:14,063 --> 00:36:16,100
do they have any retail experience?
749
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:18,040
Trying to figure out if
they're gonna be responsible,
750
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:18,990
on time.
751
00:36:18,990 --> 00:36:22,076
We famously have hired a lot of people
752
00:36:22,076 --> 00:36:24,390
who could never show up to work on time.
753
00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:26,400
- Everyone brings their peculiarities
754
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,480
and I think that the store
has been a home for everybody
755
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,940
who likes any weird number
of sub-genres of music,
756
00:36:33,940 --> 00:36:37,930
in addition to struggling
with other aspects of life
757
00:36:37,930 --> 00:36:39,120
where they maybe wouldn't fit
758
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,830
into a nine-to-five corporate job.
759
00:36:41,830 --> 00:36:45,030
- Excuse me, do you have any
new concert tickets on sale?
760
00:36:45,030 --> 00:36:47,830
- Yeah there's this new
Devendra Banhart concert,
761
00:36:47,830 --> 00:36:49,083
it's gonna be in a
dumpster on 32nd Street.
762
00:36:49,083 --> 00:36:51,724
We just got a couple
of tickets in for that.
763
00:36:51,724 --> 00:36:53,423
- A dumpster, that sounds gross.
764
00:36:54,340 --> 00:36:56,250
- Sorry it's not gonna
be in Wembley Stadium.
765
00:36:56,250 --> 00:36:59,400
- Yeah, it's gonna be an intimate
little gig in a dumpster.
766
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,430
- Dumpster.
767
00:37:00,430 --> 00:37:01,263
- I understood that.
768
00:37:01,263 --> 00:37:03,050
- The concert's gonna be in a dumpster.
769
00:37:03,050 --> 00:37:04,860
- I heard you the second time.
770
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:07,410
- There shouldn't have been
an intimidation factor,
771
00:37:08,565 --> 00:37:09,500
but there was.
772
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,118
I'm not the first person
to say that, right?
773
00:37:12,118 --> 00:37:14,410
- Do you have the Garden State soundtrack?
774
00:37:14,410 --> 00:37:16,236
That's supposed to be indie-tastic.
775
00:37:16,236 --> 00:37:17,859
- I think we might have that in the back.
776
00:37:17,859 --> 00:37:18,796
- In the back room here?
- Yeah, come on.
777
00:37:18,796 --> 00:37:19,629
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
778
00:37:19,629 --> 00:37:21,810
- Wait, this is just a bathroom,
779
00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:24,043
oh my God!
780
00:37:24,043 --> 00:37:26,310
- I remember asking
someone who worked there
781
00:37:26,310 --> 00:37:30,530
about an album that was in
the staff "We love" section.
782
00:37:30,530 --> 00:37:32,140
He was like, "Yeah, I don't like it."
783
00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:34,037
I was like, "Wow, this is badass.
784
00:37:34,037 --> 00:37:36,520
"This guy doesn't even like
the stuff that they like."
785
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,270
- Every clerk has his day where
they're not in the best mood
786
00:37:39,270 --> 00:37:41,330
and someone asks them for the
third time the same question
787
00:37:41,330 --> 00:37:42,900
and they're irritated and they come off
788
00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:46,590
as not being as welcoming as they could.
789
00:37:46,590 --> 00:37:48,670
- What are we looking for, first of all?
790
00:37:48,670 --> 00:37:49,940
Are we looking for reggae records?
791
00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:51,140
Are we looking for dub records?
792
00:37:51,140 --> 00:37:53,210
What are we looking for?
- Well...
793
00:37:53,210 --> 00:37:54,043
- Let's just go over there.
794
00:37:54,043 --> 00:37:54,951
- Even if you don't have one of these,
795
00:37:54,951 --> 00:37:57,320
maybe what you do like.
- Let's just go over there.
796
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,300
If you come at me being a hot mess
797
00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,563
and not knowing what you are looking for,
798
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,253
I'm not always the most understanding.
799
00:38:07,150 --> 00:38:11,304
- I was hungover, I wasn't
meaning to be a snob sometimes.
800
00:38:11,304 --> 00:38:12,720
I just couldn't speak.
801
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:16,044
- If I'm completely honest, I
was never just chill in there.
802
00:38:16,044 --> 00:38:18,757
I always got that first
day of school feeling like,
803
00:38:18,757 --> 00:38:21,450
"Okay, just don't fuck up."
804
00:38:21,450 --> 00:38:23,540
- They are specialists in a lot of ways,
805
00:38:23,540 --> 00:38:25,730
'cause they're dealing with music nonstop,
806
00:38:25,730 --> 00:38:27,150
all the time throughout the day.
807
00:38:27,150 --> 00:38:28,360
So they just hear so much
808
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,490
and that knowledge base
can be intimidating.
809
00:38:31,490 --> 00:38:35,610
So even what isn't snobby can
be perceived as snobby-ness
810
00:38:35,610 --> 00:38:37,920
just 'cause the knowledge
is kind of elite.
811
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:38,907
- I never quite understood that,
812
00:38:38,907 --> 00:38:40,610
I would read that sometimes
813
00:38:40,610 --> 00:38:42,910
and I just never quite agreed with it
814
00:38:44,130 --> 00:38:44,980
because that's totally the opposite
815
00:38:44,980 --> 00:38:47,250
of how I wanted things to be,
816
00:38:47,250 --> 00:38:50,600
and how I believe that I conduct myself.
817
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,450
- The only instance of snobbery I ever saw
818
00:38:53,450 --> 00:38:55,926
was this guy came in who was very drunk
819
00:38:55,926 --> 00:39:00,860
and asked Chris Vanderloo if
they had Stevie Ray Vaughan.
820
00:39:00,860 --> 00:39:03,567
And he said, "Sorry man,
we don't have that here."
821
00:39:03,567 --> 00:39:05,697
And the guy stumbled out
and muttered something like,
822
00:39:05,697 --> 00:39:07,107
"They were assholes."
823
00:39:08,270 --> 00:39:12,339
But, yeah, he shouldn't have come.
824
00:39:16,340 --> 00:39:18,570
- We never had anyone here
who was super into metal,
825
00:39:18,570 --> 00:39:20,650
so if you were a metal-head
and you came in here
826
00:39:20,650 --> 00:39:24,230
then you hated us because
there was no one here
827
00:39:24,230 --> 00:39:25,767
who was super passionate about that.
828
00:39:25,767 --> 00:39:29,410
- There was a lot of chips
on people's shoulders,
829
00:39:29,410 --> 00:39:30,810
I mean are you kidding me?
830
00:39:30,810 --> 00:39:33,000
It's a store in New York
831
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,750
where everybody's supposed
to know about everything.
832
00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:40,537
Any place that has any hip
aura, people come in like,
833
00:39:40,537 --> 00:39:41,617
"Fuck this hip aura.
834
00:39:41,617 --> 00:39:42,997
"I'm gonna challenge this hip aura.
835
00:39:42,997 --> 00:39:44,860
"I'm gonna dethrone your ass."
836
00:39:44,860 --> 00:39:48,230
- I'd rather have somebody
with a really bad attitude
837
00:39:48,230 --> 00:39:52,900
about what music sucks putting
up the stuff on the shelves
838
00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:56,840
than somebody who's just
trying to like sell product.
839
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,750
Other Music symbolized
something that I find important,
840
00:39:59,750 --> 00:40:03,570
which is keeping the bar
on everything high enough.
841
00:40:03,570 --> 00:40:05,800
If your bar on art is high,
842
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,540
then your bar on kindness
is high, you know,
843
00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:10,373
or something like that.
844
00:40:10,373 --> 00:40:11,730
And when art gets dumber,
845
00:40:11,730 --> 00:40:13,600
when movies get dumber and TV gets dumber,
846
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,580
I think we all get dumber
and meaner and shittier.
847
00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:18,670
You should celebrate
the stuff that's better
848
00:40:18,670 --> 00:40:20,650
than the average, you know?
849
00:40:20,650 --> 00:40:21,483
They just made sure
850
00:40:21,483 --> 00:40:23,987
that they weren't selling
the average stuff.
851
00:40:35,340 --> 00:40:36,940
- The cool thing about Other Music was,
852
00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:38,420
it wasn't just a record store.
853
00:40:38,420 --> 00:40:41,860
It was definitely like a
community center in a lot of ways.
854
00:40:41,860 --> 00:40:43,810
- Other Music hosted
in-store performances,
855
00:40:43,810 --> 00:40:48,317
which was a huge way that the
shop supported the community.
856
00:40:48,317 --> 00:40:51,150
They were all-ages, they were free.
857
00:40:51,150 --> 00:40:54,330
Often you would be able
to get a band's record
858
00:40:54,330 --> 00:40:57,393
for the first time, or
before it was even released.
859
00:41:07,340 --> 00:41:09,990
- We would move the
racks to the side of the shop,
860
00:41:09,990 --> 00:41:11,410
which is already very small.
861
00:41:11,410 --> 00:41:15,930
And then a band, often
quite a high profile band
862
00:41:15,930 --> 00:41:18,140
or an exciting new band, would play.
863
00:41:25,380 --> 00:41:29,210
- You basically just have the
store lighting on the band.
864
00:41:29,210 --> 00:41:30,490
You would see everything super clearly,
865
00:41:30,490 --> 00:41:32,830
you can watch the band
playing their instruments.
866
00:41:32,830 --> 00:41:34,480
You could see what was happening.
867
00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:40,160
- You could also see the faces
868
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,760
of all the other people in the crowd.
869
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,850
It wasn't like you were having
this isolated experience.
870
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,110
- See, this is how we
talk amongst each other
871
00:41:53,110 --> 00:41:54,980
and then we kind of figure
out what we're gonna do.
872
00:41:54,980 --> 00:41:57,953
Any more fashion disasters
that we need to kind of fix?
873
00:42:03,870 --> 00:42:06,660
- It was intimate and
it always sounded good,
874
00:42:06,660 --> 00:42:09,683
and people were really
reverent and respectful of it.
875
00:42:20,426 --> 00:42:25,160
- One of my favorite memories
is the Gary Wilson in-store.
876
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,270
Duane Harriott was talking up this record,
877
00:42:28,270 --> 00:42:30,620
and I don't think anybody
had ever heard of it.
878
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,330
- Someone made me a cassette of it
879
00:42:37,330 --> 00:42:38,190
and I listened to it on my Walkman.
880
00:42:38,190 --> 00:42:40,280
And then I had to take it off
881
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,590
because I was scaring people on the train
882
00:42:43,590 --> 00:42:46,470
because I had these facial expressions.
883
00:42:46,470 --> 00:42:47,960
Gary Wilson was still incognito,
884
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,110
nobody really knew who or where he was,
885
00:42:50,110 --> 00:42:51,350
he just kind of disappeared.
886
00:42:51,350 --> 00:42:53,480
- The store that started
selling the record, Other Music,
887
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,150
they're the only people that
really have this record yet
888
00:42:55,150 --> 00:42:56,160
and they already sold out.
889
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,648
- Oh great.
- We have to go over there
890
00:42:57,648 --> 00:43:00,730
and bring them more records.
891
00:43:00,730 --> 00:43:02,120
They ordered 120.
892
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,870
- It led up to this reissue
893
00:43:04,870 --> 00:43:06,920
of the "You Think You
Really Know Me" record.
894
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,920
And then he came out of
nowhere, found a band,
895
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,777
and just destroyed everybody.
896
00:43:13,777 --> 00:43:16,510
- It was a big deal.
897
00:43:16,510 --> 00:43:19,560
This record, I think, because
of Duane's word-of-mouth,
898
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:20,700
was huge here.
899
00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:23,770
It was constantly playing, and
it was selling really well,
900
00:43:23,770 --> 00:43:25,783
and so there was an in-store.
901
00:43:29,790 --> 00:43:30,730
- First of all, he came into the store
902
00:43:30,730 --> 00:43:33,723
with a blanket over his head
so nobody could see him.
903
00:43:37,060 --> 00:43:39,800
- In the corner of the record
store was this little closet.
904
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,060
And it had a little blue
curtain, and he hid back there.
905
00:43:44,060 --> 00:43:46,320
- And he would wouldn't emerge
906
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,120
until the beginning of the show.
907
00:43:50,575 --> 00:43:55,575
He had doused himself in an
entire talcum powder bottle,
908
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,550
all over his face, then put sunglasses on.
909
00:43:59,550 --> 00:44:01,605
It was just like, showtime.
910
00:44:35,410 --> 00:44:38,510
- It was the most amazing, bizarre thing
911
00:44:38,510 --> 00:44:39,836
I had ever seen in my life.
912
00:44:39,836 --> 00:44:44,836
He immediately became like
top five humans of all time,
913
00:44:45,228 --> 00:44:47,830
for that year.
914
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,430
- Going to live shows is a real,
915
00:45:09,430 --> 00:45:13,620
visceral experience that's hard to fit in
916
00:45:13,620 --> 00:45:15,130
with the rest of your
daily life sometimes.
917
00:45:15,130 --> 00:45:16,440
It's hard to describe.
918
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,420
It's just a way of having
a very sensory experience.
919
00:46:09,510 --> 00:46:12,650
- Music, it's a way to
connect with other people.
920
00:46:12,650 --> 00:46:15,960
It's a way to connect with yourself.
921
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:17,670
Maybe live more in the moment,
922
00:46:17,670 --> 00:46:22,670
and live for a purer type of joy
923
00:46:23,020 --> 00:46:26,191
than we get in our daily grind.
924
00:46:41,727 --> 00:46:42,742
- Thanks.
925
00:46:49,838 --> 00:46:51,815
- I'm just trying to
format something in Word
926
00:46:51,815 --> 00:46:54,442
and I don't understand
how to change the font.
927
00:46:54,442 --> 00:46:55,275
- Sure.
928
00:46:55,275 --> 00:46:56,630
- I think you might
know better than me.
929
00:46:56,630 --> 00:46:59,210
- That's adorable, "I don't
know how to change the font."
930
00:46:59,210 --> 00:47:01,160
How's he gonna get another job?
931
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:02,570
- Look at this.
932
00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:05,763
- I know, it's like fine wine.
933
00:47:06,750 --> 00:47:08,890
Fine wine in a box.
934
00:47:08,890 --> 00:47:11,140
- I'm gonna just keep
cleaning out back here.
935
00:47:13,653 --> 00:47:15,933
What am I going to do
with that thing, come on.
936
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,023
Mmm, indie!
937
00:47:21,020 --> 00:47:22,300
There's gonna be some weird stuff in here.
938
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:27,300
Oh man, the flier from when
we launched the website.
939
00:47:33,510 --> 00:47:37,300
- We launched the mail
order website in 1998
940
00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:41,143
and the store's newsletter
has been going out since 2000.
941
00:47:41,995 --> 00:47:44,800
- We had an email newsletter
that reached a lot of people.
942
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,840
Tens of thousands of
people read it every week,
943
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:47,917
where we reviewed music.
944
00:47:47,917 --> 00:47:50,420
- I've been writing
about music for 15 years
945
00:47:50,420 --> 00:47:53,230
and I would obsessively,
every week read the mailers
946
00:47:53,230 --> 00:47:56,470
which are I think the
best in the business.
947
00:47:56,470 --> 00:47:58,520
- Those early days online,
948
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,970
you didn't have Pitchforks and Stereogums
949
00:48:01,970 --> 00:48:04,740
and all these online
sources like you do now.
950
00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:06,440
The Other Music Update at the time
951
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,090
was one of the main sources
952
00:48:08,090 --> 00:48:11,323
for hearing about this
sort of music first.
953
00:48:13,401 --> 00:48:14,234
- Are you writing down
954
00:48:14,234 --> 00:48:15,310
the biggest sellers of all time?
955
00:48:15,310 --> 00:48:16,530
- Top sellers ever.
956
00:48:16,530 --> 00:48:17,833
That's what we're putting up.
957
00:48:20,513 --> 00:48:23,711
- Is Jim Ford in there?
- Jim Ford is not on there.
958
00:48:23,711 --> 00:48:26,673
It's only 100 obviously,
so it's pretty limited.
959
00:48:36,410 --> 00:48:39,933
- I'm surprised at how
low "Ambient Works 2" is.
960
00:48:40,787 --> 00:48:43,130
The big Other Music artists
961
00:48:43,130 --> 00:48:46,719
are Belle and Sebastian, Boards of Canada.
962
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,111
- Stereolab, Broadcast.
963
00:48:49,111 --> 00:48:53,611
- Everything on that list
is from like 2002 and south.
964
00:48:54,699 --> 00:48:58,093
- Yeah, that was, I mean that
was like, serious numbers.
965
00:48:59,607 --> 00:49:02,097
The guy from Ninja Tune
called here one time and said,
966
00:49:02,097 --> 00:49:04,400
"You guys literally sold..."
967
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,710
- More than half of the U.S. sales
968
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:08,506
or something were just in this store.
969
00:49:08,506 --> 00:49:10,490
- At this one store.
970
00:49:10,490 --> 00:49:13,120
- In the late '90s, early 2000's,
971
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,090
I don't think that people
really have an idea
972
00:49:16,090 --> 00:49:21,090
of just how many records
were sold out of this store.
973
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,560
- Fridays, Saturdays, two registers going,
974
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:28,100
two back-ups for each register
and just hours of ringing.
975
00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:29,970
Throwing CDs across the room at each other
976
00:49:29,970 --> 00:49:33,370
because we couldn't even
physically make it to each other.
977
00:49:33,370 --> 00:49:34,830
- The whole time we were in business,
978
00:49:34,830 --> 00:49:37,450
the year 2000 was our
highest grossing year.
979
00:49:37,450 --> 00:49:42,160
And 2001 was on course
to be bigger than that.
980
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:46,013
So we were coming into
September and it was a Tuesday.
981
00:49:51,090 --> 00:49:54,723
I remember a sea of people
walking up Lafayette Street.
982
00:49:58,052 --> 00:50:00,400
The store wasn't open, we were just there,
983
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,650
and people wanted to use the phone.
984
00:50:04,650 --> 00:50:07,553
There were some people who would
splash water on their face.
985
00:50:08,550 --> 00:50:10,857
I remember a dude coming in and going,
986
00:50:10,857 --> 00:50:13,070
"Do you have the new Dylan?"
987
00:50:13,070 --> 00:50:18,070
And I was like, "Do you see
what's going on all around you?"
988
00:50:26,750 --> 00:50:29,480
- We saw the top of the
south tower crack off
989
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,083
and fall from my building
and then we ran upstairs.
990
00:50:35,980 --> 00:50:38,530
So we turned on the
Disintegration Loops really loud,
991
00:50:38,530 --> 00:50:39,410
just went up on the roof
992
00:50:39,410 --> 00:50:43,923
and sat there looking
at this new landscape.
993
00:50:47,250 --> 00:50:50,740
- William came in with
Disintegration Loops,
994
00:50:50,740 --> 00:50:55,740
a CD made as a response to 9/11
and it utterly blew my mind.
995
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,890
Basically it's a tape loop that,
996
00:51:00,890 --> 00:51:04,300
as it winds its way
through the tape player it,
997
00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:07,220
the magnetic tape would flake off.
998
00:51:07,220 --> 00:51:11,090
So as it goes along it's
always subtly changing
999
00:51:11,090 --> 00:51:12,543
with every turn of the reel.
1000
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,767
- Each melody just fell away
in its own time in its own way,
1001
00:51:20,090 --> 00:51:23,000
and somehow managed to
retain the very core
1002
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,430
of what made it special.
1003
00:51:26,430 --> 00:51:29,150
And then the fact that I had
managed to record the life
1004
00:51:29,150 --> 00:51:30,600
and death of these melodies, to me,
1005
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,083
was an incredibly profound thing.
1006
00:51:34,250 --> 00:51:37,040
- I wrote a pretty
heartfelt review of it,
1007
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,863
and I pushed it on tons of people.
1008
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,410
- Nobody knew who I was,
1009
00:51:45,410 --> 00:51:50,277
so when it first came out it
was just a little slim sleeve.
1010
00:51:51,370 --> 00:51:54,010
- People had to talk about
it once they heard it.
1011
00:51:54,010 --> 00:51:57,060
That just connected with a
broad cross-section of the staff
1012
00:51:57,060 --> 00:51:58,580
and then the customers.
1013
00:51:58,580 --> 00:52:00,740
We sold hundreds of them.
1014
00:52:00,740 --> 00:52:03,093
We could just keep selling
those CD-Rs all day.
1015
00:52:04,890 --> 00:52:07,957
- Everyone was thinking
about "What do I do?"
1016
00:52:09,470 --> 00:52:13,617
I was like, "You're an
artist, make your work.
1017
00:52:13,617 --> 00:52:15,200
"This is important."
1018
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,520
- You just felt it kick into high gear
1019
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:17,353
because everyone was kind of like,
1020
00:52:17,353 --> 00:52:20,866
"Fuck it, what else am I doing?"
1021
00:52:33,250 --> 00:52:36,480
- It was definitely the
case that post-9/11,
1022
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:41,480
especially immediately post-9/11,
it was really debauched.
1023
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,413
- No one was thinking about their future,
1024
00:52:45,340 --> 00:52:48,523
and that makes for a
very interesting scene.
1025
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,386
- If you were young and your
city had just been attacked,
1026
00:52:57,386 --> 00:52:58,680
you're not an adult.
1027
00:52:58,680 --> 00:52:59,767
It was sort of just like, "You know what,
1028
00:52:59,767 --> 00:53:03,997
"I think I need to get drunk, and high,
1029
00:53:03,997 --> 00:53:06,163
"and whatever else I can do."
1030
00:53:14,247 --> 00:53:17,230
- The Lower East Side scene
was weirdly fetishized
1031
00:53:17,230 --> 00:53:19,650
because of the 9/11 events,
1032
00:53:19,650 --> 00:53:23,233
and a very hot spotlight
happened on a lot of bands.
1033
00:53:25,767 --> 00:53:28,180
- The '90s were
really dead for rock and roll
1034
00:53:28,180 --> 00:53:29,890
at least in New York City.
1035
00:53:29,890 --> 00:53:31,130
There was no industry attention
1036
00:53:31,130 --> 00:53:33,030
basically in terms of rock and roll.
1037
00:53:33,030 --> 00:53:35,940
But Other Music championed
a lot of these bands
1038
00:53:35,940 --> 00:53:37,350
really early on.
1039
00:53:37,350 --> 00:53:38,730
- Local bands would come in all the time
1040
00:53:38,730 --> 00:53:40,500
and drop off their record
1041
00:53:40,500 --> 00:53:42,980
with the hopes of us
carrying it in the shop.
1042
00:53:42,980 --> 00:53:45,080
- We had this guy Gian Carlo
1043
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,290
who ran our consignment program.
1044
00:53:47,290 --> 00:53:49,950
He just loved music so much
and was wanting to help them.
1045
00:53:49,950 --> 00:53:53,250
And giving them a spot
on the shelf, you know,
1046
00:53:53,250 --> 00:53:56,460
a spot on the shelf, that
was prime real estate.
1047
00:53:56,460 --> 00:53:58,910
- People kinda made up the
early wave of that scene,
1048
00:53:58,910 --> 00:54:01,820
like Strokes, and Liars, and Black Dice,
1049
00:54:01,820 --> 00:54:03,923
they all came in here
and they sold their CDs.
1050
00:54:03,923 --> 00:54:06,830
They'd burn the CD-Rs themselves.
1051
00:54:06,830 --> 00:54:08,120
- Interpol would make demos
1052
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,040
and I remember going down to Other Music
1053
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,210
and speaking to those guys
about whether they'd be open
1054
00:54:13,210 --> 00:54:14,610
about selling it on consignment.
1055
00:54:14,610 --> 00:54:15,907
And they were cool about it.
1056
00:54:20,330 --> 00:54:21,430
- We'd spent so many years
1057
00:54:21,430 --> 00:54:23,673
of no one really caring about us at all.
1058
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:29,620
It was one of those early
things within the band's life
1059
00:54:29,620 --> 00:54:31,761
that really meant a lot to me personally.
1060
00:54:36,100 --> 00:54:37,890
- The first show at Mercury Lounge
1061
00:54:37,890 --> 00:54:40,810
and the first time we
got a card in Other Music
1062
00:54:40,810 --> 00:54:44,534
we were like, "My band is real,
my band's a real thing now."
1063
00:54:44,534 --> 00:54:45,367
- Aw!
1064
00:54:47,090 --> 00:54:48,460
My card.
1065
00:54:48,460 --> 00:54:50,513
- Okay, ready?
- Ready.
1066
00:55:11,710 --> 00:55:14,930
- Two of the members of Animal
Collective, Dave and Noah,
1067
00:55:14,930 --> 00:55:18,893
both worked at Other Music
in mail order and shipping.
1068
00:55:19,810 --> 00:55:23,320
- I started working at Other in 1998.
1069
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,050
I actually worked on the
floor there for a short while
1070
00:55:27,050 --> 00:55:29,020
but because my social skills were terrible
1071
00:55:29,020 --> 00:55:33,052
I was quickly taken back up
to the mail order department.
1072
00:55:33,052 --> 00:55:34,540
When I started working there,
1073
00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:37,823
we weren't really doing
Animal Collective stuff.
1074
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,160
- I had moved to New York
in the summer of 2000
1075
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:43,947
and Dave said, "Well my friend is here
1076
00:55:43,947 --> 00:55:45,650
"and he's looking for work."
1077
00:55:45,650 --> 00:55:47,040
- We've been playing
together since high school
1078
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:48,720
in various combinations.
1079
00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:50,910
And when Noah moved to New York,
1080
00:55:50,910 --> 00:55:53,760
that was when we decided,
let's actually try and do this.
1081
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:01,730
- A lot of times after work
1082
00:56:01,730 --> 00:56:04,670
they'd be playing a show and
we'd all go to watch them.
1083
00:56:04,670 --> 00:56:07,160
- It definitely started really small,
1084
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,600
playing it in the shop, and
they started slowly selling
1085
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,210
mostly just on recommendations.
1086
00:56:13,210 --> 00:56:16,480
- They were definitely
more underground and avant,
1087
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:17,710
for lack of better words.
1088
00:56:17,710 --> 00:56:21,313
It felt like a sinister Fraggle
Rock on acid or something.
1089
00:56:23,627 --> 00:56:25,500
- "Spirit They're Gone,
Spirit They've Vanished,"
1090
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:28,164
they were the only outlet for us
1091
00:56:28,164 --> 00:56:30,723
to sell the record at the time.
1092
00:56:30,723 --> 00:56:32,590
I think we sent it around to a bunch
1093
00:56:32,590 --> 00:56:34,820
of labels and nobody wanted it.
1094
00:56:34,820 --> 00:56:36,377
- One of them, I don't remember who said,
1095
00:56:36,377 --> 00:56:38,220
"This really hurts our dog's ears."
1096
00:56:38,220 --> 00:56:40,370
Or, "Our cat freaks
out when we put it on."
1097
00:56:43,167 --> 00:56:44,690
- I remember Other being the first place
1098
00:56:44,690 --> 00:56:46,497
that gave it a review and put it up
1099
00:56:46,497 --> 00:56:48,810
and gave us our first name card.
1100
00:56:48,810 --> 00:56:50,690
Just being like, "Yes,
we made it, finally."
1101
00:56:50,690 --> 00:56:52,970
That's all I ever wanted
at the time, you know?
1102
00:56:52,970 --> 00:56:55,010
- I mean, Dave got fired.
1103
00:56:55,010 --> 00:56:56,950
Maybe that made things a little awkward.
1104
00:56:56,950 --> 00:56:58,880
- His head wasn't in
the game, at some point.
1105
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,733
- He was not a great
mail order supervisor.
1106
00:57:28,710 --> 00:57:32,610
- This is where we shopped
since we were teenagers.
1107
00:57:32,610 --> 00:57:34,160
- I think also in a way it's like,
1108
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,220
knowing that all these folks
who worked at the shop,
1109
00:57:37,220 --> 00:57:38,970
if we could excite these people,
1110
00:57:38,970 --> 00:57:41,833
that felt like kind of an accomplishment.
1111
00:57:44,202 --> 00:57:47,778
I think I can safely say I'm
not sure we'd be doing this
1112
00:57:47,778 --> 00:57:50,400
still today if it wasn't for the shop.
1113
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:51,550
- Yeah, definitely not.
1114
00:57:55,556 --> 00:57:56,653
- Thanks so much for being here,
1115
00:57:56,653 --> 00:57:58,403
thanks for having us.
1116
00:58:06,053 --> 00:58:08,940
- You know what's funny, I
wrote a poem a few years ago
1117
00:58:08,940 --> 00:58:10,940
about how I used to love
going into record stores
1118
00:58:10,940 --> 00:58:14,210
and hiding whatever I
wanted to buy later on.
1119
00:58:14,210 --> 00:58:17,210
So if I found something I loved,
1120
00:58:17,210 --> 00:58:19,548
you would put it in the back
where nobody would find it
1121
00:58:19,548 --> 00:58:21,440
until you had enough
money to buy it yourself.
1122
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,570
- Right.
- Yeah.
1123
00:58:23,570 --> 00:58:24,403
- I can relate.
1124
00:58:24,403 --> 00:58:25,921
- I was just thinking of that recently.
1125
00:58:25,921 --> 00:58:27,838
Take it easy.
- Thanks.
1126
00:58:32,164 --> 00:58:33,497
- Daddy.
- Yeah?
1127
00:58:34,860 --> 00:58:36,702
- I wanna get the "Hamilton" soundtrack.
1128
00:58:36,702 --> 00:58:37,547
- The "Hamilton" soundtrack?
1129
00:58:37,547 --> 00:58:39,400
The vinyl is really pricey,
1130
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,027
we have to take a look at it.
1131
00:58:41,027 --> 00:58:44,964
$90, holy smokes, that's
a lot of money, iPod?
1132
00:58:44,964 --> 00:58:47,680
- We can always listen to it.
1133
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:51,303
- Yeah it'll be on Spotify
too anyway, we can stream it.
1134
00:58:52,950 --> 00:58:55,170
Are we part of the problem
or part of the solution?
1135
00:58:55,170 --> 00:58:56,430
That's what I wanna know.
- Solution!
1136
00:58:56,430 --> 00:58:57,630
- Are we?
1137
00:58:57,630 --> 00:58:58,690
Yeah, we wanna buy it on vinyl,
1138
00:58:58,690 --> 00:59:00,450
so I guess we're part of the solution.
1139
00:59:00,450 --> 00:59:04,230
- There's a whole generation of people now
1140
00:59:04,230 --> 00:59:07,964
who didn't grow up with the
concept of paying for music.
1141
00:59:07,964 --> 00:59:09,270
- I don't wanna say post-9/11,
1142
00:59:09,270 --> 00:59:12,200
but, you know, the
early 2000s, 2002, 2003,
1143
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:13,760
things were starting to turn a little bit.
1144
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,800
Record stores were growing
mindful of the fact
1145
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,880
that their customer base was changing.
1146
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,210
- The internet was definitely happening.
1147
00:59:20,210 --> 00:59:21,880
But it was more of like,
1148
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,280
the nerds that would come into the store
1149
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:28,760
would start their conversation
in these chatrooms online
1150
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,649
about obscure crazy weird music.
1151
00:59:31,649 --> 00:59:33,464
And then they would come into the store
1152
00:59:33,464 --> 00:59:36,930
and they would buy the records
and talk to us about it.
1153
00:59:36,930 --> 00:59:40,760
Then I guess that kind
of symbiotic relationship
1154
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,110
started to go the other way,
1155
00:59:43,110 --> 00:59:45,520
and the conversation online kept going
1156
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,223
and stopped happening in real life.
1157
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,140
- On Thursday, Tower
Records will sell off its assets
1158
00:59:59,140 --> 01:00:01,170
in a court supervised auction.
1159
01:00:01,170 --> 01:00:02,680
The money will go to pay creditors
1160
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,250
of the twice-bankrupt company.
1161
01:00:05,250 --> 01:00:08,730
As NPR's Laura Sydell reports,
Tower's troubles are signs
1162
01:00:08,730 --> 01:00:11,970
of larger changes in the music industry.
1163
01:00:11,970 --> 01:00:13,930
- The big stores, the big music stores,
1164
01:00:13,930 --> 01:00:16,690
like Virgin and Tower and
Sam Goody and those stores,
1165
01:00:16,690 --> 01:00:20,150
were having a hell of
a time competing with,
1166
01:00:20,150 --> 01:00:23,810
at the time, Circuit City and Best Buy.
1167
01:00:23,810 --> 01:00:27,720
They were fighting it
all out for the hits,
1168
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:29,490
low-balling stuff.
1169
01:00:29,490 --> 01:00:34,440
We would go to Best Buy
and buy stuff cheaper
1170
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,060
than we could buy it from our distributor.
1171
01:00:37,060 --> 01:00:39,490
That just destroyed the
bigger part of the industry,
1172
01:00:39,490 --> 01:00:40,823
that low-ball stuff.
1173
01:00:45,630 --> 01:00:49,530
- When they closed, I
think it was a loss for us.
1174
01:00:49,530 --> 01:00:51,760
Both a loss of foot traffic,
1175
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,660
but also just kind of a change
in that downtown corridor.
1176
01:00:55,660 --> 01:00:57,530
The East Village going from the hub
1177
01:00:57,530 --> 01:00:59,470
of the New York underground music scene
1178
01:00:59,470 --> 01:01:02,190
to really being completely
disconnected from it.
1179
01:01:02,190 --> 01:01:05,763
It's not a neighborhood built
on arts culture anymore.
1180
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,000
- I'm just waiting for someone
1181
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,733
to go on that rant about like,
1182
01:01:13,607 --> 01:01:17,110
"New York is killing
everything," you know?
1183
01:01:17,110 --> 01:01:19,710
- Blink Fitness is now across the street.
1184
01:01:19,710 --> 01:01:22,350
Yeah the whole second
floor of Tower Records
1185
01:01:22,350 --> 01:01:24,750
is now Blink Fitness.
1186
01:01:24,750 --> 01:01:27,150
What is going to be in this neighborhood
1187
01:01:27,150 --> 01:01:29,470
without Other Music to anchor it?
1188
01:01:29,470 --> 01:01:31,600
So Broadway is shoe stores?
1189
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:32,433
That's it?
1190
01:01:32,433 --> 01:01:34,880
Is New York going to be only a place
1191
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,407
where you go to buy clothing?
- It used to be you come here
1192
01:01:37,407 --> 01:01:39,370
and you find something
out of the ordinary,
1193
01:01:39,370 --> 01:01:41,370
something you don't find
when you live in Brooklyn
1194
01:01:41,370 --> 01:01:42,930
or in Queens or whatever.
1195
01:01:42,930 --> 01:01:44,890
Now there's nothing but Starbucks
1196
01:01:44,890 --> 01:01:48,130
and tofu yogurt places, and all of that.
1197
01:01:48,130 --> 01:01:49,840
It's ridiculous.
1198
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:54,290
- Best of 2000, Other
Music, best record store.
1199
01:01:54,290 --> 01:01:55,123
We're number one,
1200
01:01:55,123 --> 01:01:58,310
above the Virgin
Megastore-Times Square, closed.
1201
01:01:58,310 --> 01:02:00,900
The Virgin Megastore-Union Square, closed.
1202
01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:02,730
HMV, closed.
1203
01:02:02,730 --> 01:02:04,670
J&R Music World, closed.
1204
01:02:04,670 --> 01:02:06,948
Bleecker Street Records is actually open.
1205
01:02:11,810 --> 01:02:13,720
We opened up our download
store a few years
1206
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:15,610
after iTunes opened their store.
1207
01:02:15,610 --> 01:02:17,660
People were buying fewer CDs
1208
01:02:17,660 --> 01:02:19,710
and we were trying to stay current,
1209
01:02:19,710 --> 01:02:21,670
to see where music was going.
1210
01:02:21,670 --> 01:02:23,300
- The first time that
Vampire Weekend's music
1211
01:02:23,300 --> 01:02:26,160
was ever officially
available to buy digitally
1212
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,270
was in the Other Music online store,
1213
01:02:28,270 --> 01:02:30,769
and that was before we'd signed a deal.
1214
01:02:40,959 --> 01:02:43,857
We had all sorts of people
coming to us saying like,
1215
01:02:43,857 --> 01:02:45,247
"Hey kids people are gonna try
1216
01:02:45,247 --> 01:02:48,290
"to get you to sign a record
deal, don't be a moron."
1217
01:02:48,290 --> 01:02:51,220
But Other Music, that
actually was the one deal
1218
01:02:51,220 --> 01:02:53,780
that made sense to us 'cause
they were forward-thinking
1219
01:02:53,780 --> 01:02:57,860
in launching an independent
digital distribution platform.
1220
01:02:57,860 --> 01:02:59,870
- This is something that
we had all the time,
1221
01:02:59,870 --> 01:03:01,300
customers coming in and if you didn't have
1222
01:03:01,300 --> 01:03:02,417
what they wanted you'd say,
1223
01:03:02,417 --> 01:03:05,010
"I think Tower should have
that across the street."
1224
01:03:05,010 --> 01:03:06,937
People would go, "I don't wanna shop
1225
01:03:06,937 --> 01:03:09,567
"at a big mass market retailer like that.
1226
01:03:09,567 --> 01:03:10,400
"The reason I'm here
1227
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,400
"is 'cause I love shopping
at independent stores."
1228
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,340
But iTunes, you know,
1229
01:03:15,340 --> 01:03:18,380
Apple still maintains
this kind of cool factor.
1230
01:03:18,380 --> 01:03:22,070
So we never found that most people
1231
01:03:22,070 --> 01:03:26,980
cared about shopping online at
a cool, curated indie store.
1232
01:03:26,980 --> 01:03:29,180
- So we announced that we
were gonna be shutting down
1233
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:31,810
the download store 'cause
LP sales were picking up.
1234
01:03:31,810 --> 01:03:33,390
We wanted to get back into focus
1235
01:03:33,390 --> 01:03:36,360
on the more physical formats.
1236
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,177
And I got an email from
Lou Reed's manager,
1237
01:03:39,177 --> 01:03:40,557
"Lou Reed is despondent.
1238
01:03:40,557 --> 01:03:42,157
"He is so depressed
1239
01:03:42,157 --> 01:03:43,807
"and he wants to know where he's going
1240
01:03:43,807 --> 01:03:45,897
"to be able to download music from now."
1241
01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:54,250
- One of the reasons that
the Other Music digital store
1242
01:03:54,250 --> 01:03:58,450
didn't flourish was because
people who shop at that store
1243
01:03:58,450 --> 01:04:01,280
are so dedicated to the
idea of physical media,
1244
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,760
whether it's a cassette
or a CD or a record.
1245
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:09,393
I mean, I never used it.
1246
01:04:12,229 --> 01:04:14,103
- This is back, cool!
1247
01:04:15,450 --> 01:04:17,800
For me, music has always
been very physical.
1248
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,790
I'm really into cassettes
and going out to shows.
1249
01:04:20,790 --> 01:04:25,790
And I'm very involved in
that DIY scene of exchanging,
1250
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:27,660
and sharing and being present.
1251
01:04:28,550 --> 01:04:29,530
- What's been really cool actually,
1252
01:04:29,530 --> 01:04:32,900
since the birth of streaming
and MP3s and all that,
1253
01:04:32,900 --> 01:04:34,780
is the rise of vinyl.
1254
01:04:34,780 --> 01:04:38,310
And watching younger people
now build their collections
1255
01:04:38,310 --> 01:04:41,020
and come in and be like, "I
just got a vinyl player."
1256
01:04:41,020 --> 01:04:42,407
As they say, vinyl player.
1257
01:04:42,407 --> 01:04:44,050
"I want some records."
1258
01:04:44,050 --> 01:04:47,010
- The quality stuff, you want it archived.
1259
01:04:47,010 --> 01:04:50,590
The quality stuff, you want
to make a special spot for it.
1260
01:04:50,590 --> 01:04:53,321
- I'm such an analog human being.
1261
01:04:53,321 --> 01:04:56,840
I can't read a book on a Kindle.
1262
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,480
I like touching records
and flipping them over
1263
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,800
and looking at every little thing.
1264
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:04,540
- It is a fundamentally
different experience
1265
01:05:04,540 --> 01:05:06,720
than lying back with
your laptop on your bed
1266
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:08,170
and just clicking around.
1267
01:05:08,170 --> 01:05:09,290
I think there's something important
1268
01:05:09,290 --> 01:05:12,417
about the physical nature of it.
1269
01:05:12,417 --> 01:05:13,259
- Almost done.
1270
01:05:13,259 --> 01:05:14,092
- Yeah.
1271
01:05:21,345 --> 01:05:23,178
Your total is $964.26.
1272
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:25,420
- Vinyl has been growing,
1273
01:05:25,420 --> 01:05:27,190
and it's been growing
dramatically in the industry
1274
01:05:27,190 --> 01:05:28,980
and it was growing for us.
1275
01:05:28,980 --> 01:05:33,980
But it never came close to
replacing the loss of CD sales.
1276
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,630
- CDs were great because they
don't cost very much to make,
1277
01:05:38,630 --> 01:05:40,340
they don't cost very much to ship,
1278
01:05:40,340 --> 01:05:42,670
they can be made very quickly.
1279
01:05:42,670 --> 01:05:45,830
And all those things are
not true about vinyl.
1280
01:05:45,830 --> 01:05:46,663
- The record business
1281
01:05:46,663 --> 01:05:48,150
is always a really tough business.
1282
01:05:48,150 --> 01:05:49,180
It's a volume business.
1283
01:05:49,180 --> 01:05:50,510
You have to sell a lot of records.
1284
01:05:50,510 --> 01:05:51,860
You're making just a couple bucks
1285
01:05:51,860 --> 01:05:52,910
most things you're selling,
1286
01:05:52,910 --> 01:05:54,870
so you need to sell a lot every day.
1287
01:05:54,870 --> 01:05:58,110
Even if you're not paying
$15,000 a month rent.
1288
01:05:58,110 --> 01:06:01,120
- It's been pretty rough.
1289
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:05,354
You have years where
you do better or worse.
1290
01:06:05,354 --> 01:06:08,650
So, you pay your employees
and you take what's left over.
1291
01:06:08,650 --> 01:06:12,856
In 2003, they didn't make any money.
1292
01:06:12,856 --> 01:06:15,570
And since then, they have not made a wage
1293
01:06:15,570 --> 01:06:18,040
that they could live on without spouses
1294
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:22,760
who kept them afloat
for a long time I think.
1295
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:25,740
- We live week to week.
1296
01:06:25,740 --> 01:06:28,690
The deposits that we make every
day help us buy more records
1297
01:06:28,690 --> 01:06:31,943
to keep going and it's just been tough.
1298
01:07:16,982 --> 01:07:19,470
- I think he sees the store as like
1299
01:07:19,470 --> 01:07:24,120
he feels like he has
responsibility to the customers.
1300
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:29,120
And then I think his other main
hold back was the employees.
1301
01:07:29,660 --> 01:07:32,260
I think he just felt like,
"What are they gonna do?"
1302
01:07:33,668 --> 01:07:37,030
And I'm like, "Chris, it's
great to think about that,
1303
01:07:38,627 --> 01:07:40,337
"but what are you gonna do?"
1304
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:45,063
'Cause he's always at
the back of the list.
1305
01:08:19,112 --> 01:08:20,362
- XL, XL, papa.
1306
01:08:22,180 --> 01:08:24,140
- XL it is.
1307
01:08:24,140 --> 01:08:25,940
Kind of our number one customer
1308
01:08:26,870 --> 01:08:28,780
broke down in tears yesterday.
1309
01:08:28,780 --> 01:08:30,170
Rockstar Rob.
- Really?
1310
01:08:30,170 --> 01:08:32,382
- Rob came in yesterday
and he was fully crying.
1311
01:08:32,382 --> 01:08:33,215
- Aw.
1312
01:08:33,215 --> 01:08:35,530
- I like that you guys have
nicknames for everyone,
1313
01:08:35,530 --> 01:08:37,410
like Thursday Michael.
1314
01:08:37,410 --> 01:08:39,034
- Rollerblading Mike.
1315
01:08:39,034 --> 01:08:41,193
- Rollerblading Mike?
1316
01:08:48,390 --> 01:08:51,273
- It's crazy, it's hectic, it's nonstop.
1317
01:08:52,786 --> 01:08:54,520
- People are buying stuff so fast
1318
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:56,373
that we can't keep it on the shelves.
1319
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:58,550
- Look at the line.
1320
01:08:59,730 --> 01:09:01,740
Hey do you have any more
Radiohead upstairs on CD?
1321
01:09:01,740 --> 01:09:03,920
- We close at eight, but
we'll probably be here later.
1322
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:05,620
- Yeah, the store's open tomorrow.
1323
01:09:11,645 --> 01:09:12,645
- Thank you.
1324
01:09:14,477 --> 01:09:17,054
- Oh Jesus, I'm so, so sorry.
1325
01:09:17,054 --> 01:09:19,430
- See, now you better pace
yourself, pace yourself.
1326
01:09:19,430 --> 01:09:20,990
- We don't have any large left.
1327
01:09:20,990 --> 01:09:22,573
- I would recommend
ordering from the website.
1328
01:09:22,573 --> 01:09:25,633
- Last night we were here
until 2:30 in the morning.
1329
01:09:27,781 --> 01:09:28,614
- Should I be saying to people
1330
01:09:28,614 --> 01:09:30,510
have a nice night or have a nice life?
1331
01:09:31,607 --> 01:09:33,357
"Thanks so much, have a nice life."
1332
01:09:47,612 --> 01:09:48,700
Today's our last day.
1333
01:09:48,700 --> 01:09:51,376
We have a huge celebration
happening on Tuesday.
1334
01:09:51,376 --> 01:09:54,575
- Are you sad because it's the last day?
1335
01:09:54,575 --> 01:09:55,928
- I am very sad.
1336
01:09:55,928 --> 01:09:58,893
- I have a job, you
could clean up our house.
1337
01:10:00,220 --> 01:10:01,833
- We could use some help.
1338
01:10:01,833 --> 01:10:02,850
- I could clean your room.
1339
01:10:02,850 --> 01:10:07,840
- I've been on the verge of tears all day
1340
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:11,803
since I've been here, but
they're kind of tears of joy.
1341
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:14,960
- I looked it up.
- Awesome.
1342
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:16,430
- It looks like we got three copies.
1343
01:10:16,430 --> 01:10:19,691
- She's almost like a classically
trained singer and pianist
1344
01:10:19,691 --> 01:10:23,370
who went into more of a
dark rock kind of thing.
1345
01:10:23,370 --> 01:10:24,203
It's really beautiful.
1346
01:10:24,203 --> 01:10:27,110
If that sounds interesting, to
you, I think you'll like it.
1347
01:10:27,110 --> 01:10:29,890
- You have, like, two live
copies of Professor Longhair
1348
01:10:29,890 --> 01:10:31,660
in the Blues section.
1349
01:10:31,660 --> 01:10:33,173
- No one's picked those up yet.
1350
01:10:34,571 --> 01:10:35,609
Someone's gotta get those.
1351
01:10:35,609 --> 01:10:37,641
- But when did you get
them in? Yesterday, today?
1352
01:10:37,641 --> 01:10:40,218
- We got them in yesterday.
1353
01:10:40,218 --> 01:10:42,513
Alright, it means a lot.
1354
01:10:43,737 --> 01:10:46,323
- I will come back to the empty space.
1355
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:49,300
- The world is changing
quickly in a lot of ways,
1356
01:10:49,300 --> 01:10:52,560
and so much of it happens
in the virtual world now.
1357
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:54,700
And for sure there are a
lot of positives to that.
1358
01:10:54,700 --> 01:10:59,590
But the magic of human interaction
1359
01:10:59,590 --> 01:11:02,860
and the way it forces
you to be in the moment
1360
01:11:02,860 --> 01:11:05,360
and have a real give-and-take dialogue
1361
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:09,100
is something that can only
be experienced face-to-face.
1362
01:11:09,100 --> 01:11:12,320
- It's easier than ever to reach people,
1363
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,620
but at the same time
you're constantly trying
1364
01:11:14,620 --> 01:11:17,890
to cut through a wave of noise
1365
01:11:17,890 --> 01:11:19,882
that's coming at people all the time.
1366
01:11:19,882 --> 01:11:21,037
- Hey man, how are you doing?
1367
01:11:21,037 --> 01:11:22,430
- Good.
1368
01:11:22,430 --> 01:11:24,300
- I really feel for musicians
1369
01:11:24,300 --> 01:11:27,013
trying to get started nowadays.
1370
01:11:27,968 --> 01:11:30,420
It's so much easier to
get lost in the crowd.
1371
01:11:30,420 --> 01:11:33,730
Whereas something about
knowing that there are people
1372
01:11:33,730 --> 01:11:38,730
at a record store there to
stand behind certain groups
1373
01:11:39,210 --> 01:11:41,230
and talk to people about
them that they really like
1374
01:11:41,230 --> 01:11:43,670
and get people to get
things, it's different.
1375
01:11:43,670 --> 01:11:44,900
And now it's also strange
1376
01:11:44,900 --> 01:11:48,330
because robots are
telling you what you like.
1377
01:11:48,330 --> 01:11:51,160
- What makes it good?
- Yeah it's good.
1378
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:54,320
It's good but the Leo Zero
mix, he edited it a little bit.
1379
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:55,153
But it's cool.
1380
01:11:55,153 --> 01:11:58,900
I was supposed to be a lawyer, you know?
1381
01:11:58,900 --> 01:12:01,180
And if it wasn't for Other Music,
1382
01:12:01,180 --> 01:12:03,510
I would definitely be a lawyer.
1383
01:12:03,510 --> 01:12:08,510
A very bored, unsatisfied,
angst-ridden lawyer.
1384
01:12:10,430 --> 01:12:13,320
- Who's the last person to
buy a record in this place?
1385
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:14,153
Is it gonna be you?
1386
01:12:14,153 --> 01:12:15,979
Is it gonna be you?
1387
01:13:10,890 --> 01:13:13,196
Other Music, this is Josh.
1388
01:13:13,196 --> 01:13:17,143
We're closed and we're just
cleaning out the store now.
1389
01:13:20,290 --> 01:13:22,083
Hey man, is your truck here?
1390
01:13:24,460 --> 01:13:26,530
We'll start here, and
anything this way too.
1391
01:13:26,530 --> 01:13:27,413
All this stuff.
1392
01:13:29,260 --> 01:13:31,488
That's just a little bitty truck.
1393
01:13:31,488 --> 01:13:33,293
We've got a lot of shit to fit in there.
1394
01:13:41,330 --> 01:13:42,833
Oh yeah, big guns.
1395
01:13:49,230 --> 01:13:50,353
It's a lot harder to put it together
1396
01:13:50,353 --> 01:13:52,013
than it is to take it apart.
1397
01:14:21,703 --> 01:14:23,028
I think that one's loose,
1398
01:14:23,028 --> 01:14:25,945
you can do the same on all of them.
1399
01:14:26,869 --> 01:14:28,522
- Is the store moving?
1400
01:14:28,522 --> 01:14:32,300
- No, it closed Saturday.
1401
01:14:32,300 --> 01:14:33,250
This past Saturday.
1402
01:15:13,331 --> 01:15:15,800
- Is this how you inherited the floor?
1403
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,020
- No, we painted it on
a couple of occasions.
1404
01:15:19,020 --> 01:15:22,600
And then over the years, you
could see where people walked.
1405
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:24,930
We used to use the floor as a way
1406
01:15:24,930 --> 01:15:27,480
to see what sections were most popular.
1407
01:15:27,480 --> 01:15:29,070
The way the floor was worn out more
1408
01:15:29,070 --> 01:15:30,623
was where most people stood.
1409
01:15:32,119 --> 01:15:34,770
You can see the ghosts
of the records up there.
1410
01:15:34,770 --> 01:15:37,243
The seven-inches.
- Yeah.
1411
01:15:38,157 --> 01:15:39,824
- Oh my God.
1412
01:15:41,180 --> 01:15:42,013
Wow.
1413
01:16:02,969 --> 01:16:04,886
Thanks so much, Daniel.
1414
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:09,306
- It's been great, it's been great.
1415
01:16:09,306 --> 01:16:10,656
I'm gonna miss it for sure.
1416
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,110
- You're a huge part of this place
1417
01:16:15,110 --> 01:16:16,094
and made it what it was, you know?
1418
01:16:16,094 --> 01:16:16,927
- Say it again?
1419
01:16:16,927 --> 01:16:19,944
- You're a huge part of what
this place became, what it was.
1420
01:16:19,944 --> 01:16:22,777
- Yeah, I felt that as well, yeah.
1421
01:16:23,907 --> 01:16:27,242
You know, you did a really
wonderful thing for 20 years.
1422
01:16:27,242 --> 01:16:32,242
And I am honored to be a
part of New York history.
1423
01:16:54,210 --> 01:16:57,640
- More than ever people being together
1424
01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,263
is very, very important.
1425
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:07,880
For me, theaters,
bookstores, and music stores,
1426
01:17:10,390 --> 01:17:12,923
record stores, were a type of temple.
1427
01:17:14,220 --> 01:17:16,360
And they would have a community.
1428
01:17:31,380 --> 01:17:36,380
- We're swinging away from
tangible places where we meet,
1429
01:17:36,580 --> 01:17:38,718
and we have things together.
1430
01:17:44,470 --> 01:17:47,020
- Maybe we'll swing not all the way back,
1431
01:17:47,020 --> 01:17:49,980
but maybe there's a way for the digital
1432
01:17:49,980 --> 01:17:52,400
and the streaming and the loving of music
1433
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:53,620
to swing back to a place
1434
01:17:53,620 --> 01:17:55,620
where we could still have these temples.
1435
01:18:05,477 --> 01:18:07,710
- I would like to introduce,
1436
01:18:07,710 --> 01:18:11,584
all the way from the tristate
area, and the boroughs,
1437
01:18:11,584 --> 01:18:12,908
Yo La Tengo!
1438
01:18:15,117 --> 01:18:17,450
- Hey Josh, you around here?
1439
01:18:46,610 --> 01:18:50,770
- Other Music was that place
that knew what you wanted
1440
01:18:50,770 --> 01:18:52,370
before you knew what you wanted.
1441
01:18:53,690 --> 01:18:57,273
- Other Music was a
champion of the underdog.
1442
01:18:58,740 --> 01:19:02,840
A lot of the artists who maybe
didn't want to be rock stars,
1443
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:06,433
but they wanted to say something.
1444
01:19:07,350 --> 01:19:09,693
It was a place where the underdogs won.
1445
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,700
When they opened, I don't
think that they even knew
1446
01:19:13,700 --> 01:19:18,700
how much people needed it
or wanted it, but they did.
1447
01:19:20,310 --> 01:19:23,680
- You carry the spirit of it,
I think, by being curious.
1448
01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:25,150
No matter how much music they knew,
1449
01:19:25,150 --> 01:19:27,100
there was still more music to discover.
1450
01:19:28,060 --> 01:19:30,400
So I think it's everyone's job to,
1451
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,570
if you find something you
love, to tell people about it.
1452
01:19:33,570 --> 01:19:36,363
- Hey everybody, we just
want to say thank you.
1453
01:19:37,340 --> 01:19:40,500
Thank you for an amazing 20 years.
1454
01:19:40,500 --> 01:19:41,460
Look at Chris back there,
1455
01:19:41,460 --> 01:19:44,310
he's not even thinking
about coming out here.
1456
01:19:44,310 --> 01:19:46,930
A place like Other Music
is only about the community
1457
01:19:46,930 --> 01:19:51,770
and about the people who shopped
there and about the family.
1458
01:19:51,770 --> 01:19:54,290
It's not about buying and selling,
1459
01:19:54,290 --> 01:19:59,290
it's about being a part of
something and, oh Chris came out!
1460
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,420
That is an incredibly special moment,
1461
01:20:26,420 --> 01:20:28,930
when somebody finds a record,
1462
01:20:28,930 --> 01:20:30,823
a song that means something to them.
1463
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:33,760
It's very emotional.
1464
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,697
It's beyond just like,
"That's a cool record."
1465
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:43,760
We were really trying to connect
great art with great fans.
1466
01:20:46,550 --> 01:20:51,500
Helping people find great
art, it's a tough living,
1467
01:20:51,500 --> 01:20:54,783
but it is a pretty satisfying life.
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