I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Guerill filmmaker Brendan Toiler unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, 'an elegy for a vanishing subsulture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and ultimately, great affection - roughly 3,000 Indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade.,' (Johnathan Perry, Boston Glove). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, downloading, and technological shifts in the music industry told through candid interviews, cresttallen record store owners, starting statistics, and eve=popping animation. Fat cats or our favorite record stores? You decide.
• Cast: Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Noam Chomsky, Chris Frantz, Bob Gruen, Patterson Hood, Lenny Kaye, Ian MacKaye, Legs McNeil, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Brendan Toller
• Director: Brendan Toller
• Runtime: 1:17
• Company: MVD Visua
• Media Format: Movie