It encapsulates why this was such a cool concept and why I wanted to write about it today: I found this eloquent description on The Ratio of the allure of the Sub Pop Singles Club. It was a high point of my teen existence, and I went home loaded with great music (some of it possibly on cassette tapes). Picture the sound of angels singing, like in the movies, with me shrouded in golden light, surrounded on all sides by Polaroid pictures of the patron saints of rock. I remember once on a college-scouting trip to Seattle how I sought out the Sub Pop record store and stood there feeling like I was in my own personal Mecca. If you were musically aware enough to be a member of the Sub Pop Singles Club, you would have gotten a 7″ record every month with two or three songs from someone on Sub Pop’s roster, which has hosted some of my all-time favorite bands. From November 1988 through December 1993, and then again from April 1998 until its final permanent ( *) demise in February 2002, the Sub Pop Singles Club (of the famed Seattle independent record label) offered its subscribers some awesomely rare gems on a monthly basis by mail.
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