The Sub Pop Silver Jubilee

Sub Pop Silver Jubilee – Mudhoney

“Had Sub Pop never darkened Seattle’s doorstep, how much would a 3-bedroom house on Queen Anne cost right now?”

This was the query I posed to a friend of mine yesterday.

“Twenty, maybe thirty percent less than what they cost right now”, she replied.

I thought her estimate was in the right ballpark. While Microsoft, Amazon, etc. would have fueled a housing bubble with or without the music scene, Sub Pop certainly didn’t help matters by putting Seattle on the mainstream media’s map.

This being the case, you can argue all day whether

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