Hi. My name is Chris Wrenn.

I started a punk music record label at the age of nineteen because all of my friends were in bands, and I didn’t play an instrument.

In the nineties, I worked a minimum-wage job at a record store and couldn’t afford to release more than one album a year. As it turned out, investing in bands was expensive. And my paycheck barely covered the rent in the apartment that I shared with four roommates in Boston’s Mission Hill. If I was going to launch a band’s career, I would have to find the money some other way.

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