‘I Need That Record!’ Documentary Features Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye & More Discussing The Dying Record Store Bizness

INeedthat record blogspot says, ” ‘I Need That Record The Death (or Possible Survival) of The Independent Record Store,’ is a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Are they going to die off? Will they survive?

The documentary features music luminaries and voices such as Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt (the Minutemen, fireHose), Ian Mackaye (Fugazi), theorist Noam Chomsky, punk authority Legs McNeil, crotchety New York noisenik Glenn Branca, Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Chris Frantz (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club), Pat Carney (Black Keys), BP Helium (Of Montreal), and Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) lamenting the fact that their industry – and the record buying one – is going straight down the tubes (if it isn’t already in the bowels of the toilet as we speak).

Legs McNeil, the author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk says, “We’re at war with most of the muslim world, we have the dumbest President in the history of the United States and you’re worried about record stores? That’s a danger?”

If you’re feeling more empathetic than Legs, you could always celebrate Record Store Day on April 19 (yes, it’s really come to this).