Label of love: Dischord Records

Included in their 20 Years of Dischord boxset is a booklet, the front cover of which features two surly young men sitting in an office overflowing with record, stickers, toys, mugs and all manner of tat. They are label founders Jeff Nelson and Ian MacKaye. The latter is sporting a shaved head and wearing shorts. On the back cover, there is a photo of the same two men, 20 years later, older and almost certainly wiser, in the same untidy office. MacKaye is still sporting a skinhead and wearing sho...

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