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I Need That Record!

6.4 77 mins Documentary   Music   2008
Brendan Toller Productions   Outre Films  
Director(s): Brendan Toller

Release Date: 03 Sat, May 2008

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe). 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, crestfallen record store owners, startling statistics, and eye-popping animation. Fat cats or our favorite record stores? You decide. Featuring- IAN MACKAYE, NOAM CHOMSKY, MIKE WATT, THURSTON MOORE, LENNY KAYE (Patti Smith), CHRIS FRANTZ (Talking Heads), GLENN BRANCA, PATTERSON HOOD (Drive By Truckers), PAT CARNEY (Black Keys) , LEGS MCNEIL, BOB GRUEN, BP HELIUM, and many indie record stores across the U.S.

Casts of I Need That Record!

Glenn Branca

as Himself

Pat Carney

as Self

Noam Chomsky

as Himself

Chris Frantz

as Himself

Bob Gruen

as Self

Patterson Hood

as Self

Lenny Kaye

as Himself

Ian MacKaye

as Himself

Legs McNeil

as Self

Thurston Moore

as Himself

Malcolm Tent

as Self

Mike Watt

as Self

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