Albums Quote by Dave Grohl

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record…

— Chad Gilbert

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

— James Murphy

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a…

— Jack Antonoff

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands,…

— Laura Jane Grace

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

— Drake

I had my own label, Rising Force Records, and made records, but had them distributed to the chains, to the retailers, but the retailers…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

— Kurt Cobain

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any…

— Billy Idol

In the UK, tons of records are now sold in grocery stores, because there are no record stores - it's iTunes or the grocery…

— Win Butler

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

— Billy Bragg

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

— Ezra Furman

I go to the local record store to buy my albums.

— Sonny Sandoval