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Besides selling records, CD's
(new and used) and other "collectible
items" all day, Dan and
Chris have other stakes in the music
industry. Both are members of local
bands.
Dan, who was a member of the
now-disbanded Lay Quiet Awhile, is
working on a new recording project.
"I'm working with a drummer
named Mike and a singer named
Molly," Dan said. "We are hopefully
going to do a release that will be
out this spring. It's a low-key kind
of thing."
Chris, however, is not so low
key. He sings in the punk band
In/Humanity. He is also'with
Anachrid. an exDerimental music
project that is also trying to do some
work with Stereo nucleosis Records.
"When Chris does Anacrid, he
steals my music, puts it on fourtrack,
slows it down and adds
effects," Dan said. "But it is flattering
to have it stolen and changed
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Because both are area musicians,
they support other local
bands, artists, smaller record labels
and even the university's radio station.
In fact, Chris worked as a disc
jockey at WUSC at one time.
"I was a DJ briefly," Chris said.
"I did an experimental show, which
I'm sure under the present Student
Media leader's guidance wouldn't
have existed."
The WUSC controversy not
only concerned Dan and Chris as
former DJ's and students at USC,
but also as musicians and small
business owners. They relied on
WUSC's old format and listeners to
encourage their business.
"What happened at WUSC is a
complete travesty and terrible for
the business community," Dan, who
still attends USC as an International
Studies graduate student, said.
"Certain area businesses depend on
having a station that plays a particular
type of music to reach customers.
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and a number of local bands."
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goals, specifically for New Clear
Days. They would like to sell tshirts,
more music and videos and,
eventually, get new carpet.
"We'd like to get a new sign,
too," Chris said, referring to replacing
the paper one that adorns the
store's front windows. "We want a
huge neon sign with light bulbs all
around it ? a theater marquis."
All of this have to wait. In the
meantime, however, work is in
progress for getting some bands to
play inside New Clear Days. This
might be just the ploy the store
needs to advertise without spending
much money.
"The hardest thing for a small
business is getting the word out
without having a lot of money to
spend," Dan said. "We'd much
rather spend our money on stock
than ads for New Clear Days."
Chris agrees that the store does
not necessarily need to buy expensive
advertising to make New Clear
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