Under the Radar

Richard Reed Parry of ARCADE FIRE

I found it when I was 22 or 23. Or maybe it found me. I’d been at the big Salvation Army thrift store not far from my house and someone had dropped off this crate of really amazing records—an actual record collection of someone deep into music—while I was there. I started grabbing everything literally as it came through the door. There were

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