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The Great Creators with Guy Raz

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The Strange Phenomenon of GiveUp

When GiveUp came out, Subpop's projections were that it would sell 20,000 copies. But the record just kind of took on a life of its own. We did five weeks of touring around the States and then put it to bed thinking we'd never do it again. "It became this real word of mouth kind of phenomenon"

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