What Was the Impetus to Start a Pitchfork?

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i noticed that people were selling music and telling bootleg things, c ds. So i just started selling the stuff that i already had an my collection,. Kind of like whittling it down, and what can i get rid of and what's worth a lot? And through doing that, i made, i don't know, probably five grand. But i moved to chicago with that much money in my hand. And was determined. I'm going to not give myself an opportunity to mess up. Like, i'm going to have to work on this as a business. One advertiser actually reached out to me and said, hey, we want to advertise at the top of

While working at his local record store at age 20, Ryan Schreiber dreamt that his scrappy music review webpage might one day grow into an influential music publication. Working out of his parents’ house, he wrote about indie music because he loved it, and recruited like-minded friends to do the same. In 2000, a rhapsodic review of Radiohead’s “Kid A” got huge attention online, and soon Ryan’s site began to attract tens of thousands of users—building a reputation for pointed reviews that could make or break careers. In 2015, Pitchfork joined The New Yorker and Vogue when it was acquired by Condé Nast, one of the most prestigious magazine publishers in the world.

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