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AUDIO: SST's Greg Ginn (1991)

Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 1991

The hardcore label boss talks about setting up SST in order to release Black Flag's recordings; about learning how to run a label and the importance of independent distribution; the perception of SST and its subsidiary labels New Alliance and Cruise; SST's audience(s), the reactionary fanzine scene, and the challenge of selling "out-there" non-rock music.

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