Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman

One evening Chris Novoselich went over to Bruce's house and started banging on the windows, demanding a recording contract. Yeah. In Indie culture. Contracts really weren't used very much about it. So I was intimidated.

I did call John. And John's true genius was to go to the library and photocopy a generic contract, use a little whiteout. And for twenty cents worth of copies We were able to get a contract with Nirvana that Is essentially the reason why we're talking to you today.

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