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I Work At A Record Label Where I Have Archives. These Things [memorabilia] Occurred And Are Important To Somebody, And They're Important To Me. I Find The Record Industry Largely Repellent. This Music, The Teen Idles, All Of That Stuff, Is Important To Me. I Don't Have Lawyers, An Agent Or A Manager. However I Find The Music Industry Largely Repellent. I Just Make Records Because That's What I Love To Do. So I Think That Era, Those Pieces Of Media, I Keep In My Collection.

The Fugazi Live Series Site, When We Realized The Internet, The Way It Works - The Speeds And Its Development - Made It Possible To Have One Source Of Infinite Copies, Was Incredible For Us. Using Tapes Or Cd's To Make Copies Would Have Been So Unwieldy. We Have Shows That Have Zero Downloads, Which Makes Me Sad, But They're All Freely Available At Any Time. The Most Downloaded Show Was The One With The Best Audio Quality, But I Didn't Think It Was A Very Interesting Show.

The American Underground Punk Scene, Though, Is A Story Worth Remembering.

I Actually Looked Up In My Journal Trying To Figure Out Some Dates And, In January 1991, America Is About To Go Back Into Its First Sort Of Actual War Since Vietnam, With The Gulf War. It Just Seemed Unbelievable At The Time That This Country Would Do That - Which Is Funny To Think About Now.

I Do Remember Seeing Godspell Or Jesus Christ Superstar, One Of Those. It Was A Liberation Theology Venue. Anything Radical Seemed To Be Accepted There. I Definitely Picked Up The Idea There That You Should Question Authority.