Profile; Brian Kirk; Living in a Sea of Albums, Label Owner Started Out with a 7-Inch Dream

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At Brian Kirk's home in Bay View, albums are everywhere. Boxes of them line the living room walls, from floor to ceiling. They spill over to the dining room and lie in piles on the floor.

There are CDs, records and 7-inch singles. There's a Honeybunch 7- inch of "Hey Blue Sky!" from 1989. CDs of Swedish twee favorites Club 8. But there are also Tom Waits records, the Police's "Zenyatta Mondatta," the Faces (one of Rod Stewart's first bands) and the Cure.

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Profile; Brian Kirk; Living in a Sea of Albums, Label Owner Started Out with a 7-Inch Dream

By my estimate, he has 12,600 CDs, 3,000 records and 4,860 singles -- just in his living room.

Given his unassuming glasses and quiet demeanor, you'd never guess that Kirk was an instrumental force in underground American pop music. He released rare indie-pop...

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