![]() ![]() They were only given name tags to wear around their necks – similar to laminates roadies or concert VIPs wear – which were usually decorated with band stickers and concert buttons. Because the company valued individuality, employees could dress however they wanted (within reason). I’ll always have a place in my heart for Empire Records because I was that teenager working in the record store talking with anyone and everyone about music, directing customers to the rock section even though there was an enormous sign that said ROCK, discovering new music, and endlessly discussing the best and worst albums with coworkers. I’m either going to jail or hell I can’t decide.ħ) Rex Manning: Why don’t you all just fade away. Mark: You know what Joe? One of these days, I’m gonna show you little people.ĥ) Lucas: Warren, look what you took. Rap… metal… rap… metal… And Whitney Houston. Lucas: Well if Axl Rose was driving down the highway, and saw Rex Manning stranded on the side of the road, do you think Axl Rose would stop and help him? I swear you get smarter the shorter your skirt gets.ģ) Lucas: Mark, who’s your favorite singer? Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior.ĭebra: God, that is so clever. Save the Empire.Ģ) Gina: Well Sinead O’Rebellion. *MIND BLOWN* Of course it is! Except instead of a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse, it’s a good girl with a closet pill problem, a romantic artist boy, a slutty girl who doesn’t care what people think, a goth girl who is deceivingly kind and smart, a sweet stoner boy, a clepto for a cause in a turtleneck, a rocker who never wears a shirt, and a hippie stoner.ġ) Mark: Damn the man. ![]() My family’s business was sold in 1998 – luckily – because soon after the entire industry fell apart.Īnyway, I watched Empire Records so much I wore out my VHS tape which is funny because a friend of mine, who watched it for the first time yesterday, made the comment that the movie is the record store version of the Breakfast Club. Released in September 1995, the movie’s premise of a corporate company taking over an independent record store was only four years ahead of the demise of the music business as a result of Napster’s 1999 debut. Of course I love Empire Records – it’s a movie about working in a record store! But it’s more than that. ![]()
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