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I Need That Record! (2008)

2008 • 1h 17m • Documentary, Music • Unrated

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Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller presents I NEED THAT RECORD!, exploring the decline of independent record stores. Described as "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines – with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection – why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade" (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe), the film examines greed, media consolidation, changing radio, big box stores, downloading, and technological shifts in the music industry. It uses candid interviews, record store owners' stories, statistics, and animation to ask whether corporate interests or independent shops are more important. Featuring interviews with Ian MacKaye, Noam Chomsky, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith), Chris Frantz (Talking Heads), Glenn Branca, Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers), Pat Carney (Black Keys), Legs McNeil, Bob Gruen, BP Helium, and numerous independent record stores throughout the U.S.

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