4/20/09

I NEED THAT RECORD!





I Need That Record!

By Brendan Toller, 2008, 77 mins.

This documentary takes on the distressing decline of America’s independent record stores, some three thousand of which have closed in the past ten years. Toller explores the community impact and artistic toll when local owners and creative spirits are pushed aside by big box stores, media consolidation, format radio, and kids who think they’re entitled to free music. He also shows how the defiant avant-garde hangs on. This film should provoke animated debate over issues such as cultural homogenization, global capitalism, media policy, and who owns music. Order this from http://www.ineedthatrecord.com/Site/I_Need_That_Record%21.html

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