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Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

The Importance of Music in My Life

As a kid, did you get into music pretty early or did it happen later when you were a teenager? I was into it pretty early, just in the sense that my dad was really into listening to music and had record player and records. And so finding out about that is what kind of exposed me to other kinds of music. Back then also, it was harder to, like whatever you wanted to look like, you had to assemble it yourself. You couldn't just go to Hot Topic and buy it. People put safety pins in their clothing. Mac would even like put egg whites in his hair to make it more like stiff.

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