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mr_lebowski

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69. They were on a small label with small budget, I think there was some kinda buy-out

Sun Mar 10, 2019, 12:50 PM

Mar 2019

reorganization thing going on at the time there, too ... I think only like 10K copies of #1 Record got pressed and the company lacked distribution deals, so basically nobody could buy the damn album, it simply didn't make it to record stores. And things didn't get any better by the time they made Radio City.

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