Empire Records: 90s cult classic starring Liv Tyler and Renée Zellweger is ripe for a comeback
What’s not to love about a band of scrappy teenage misfits and a music store so cool even shoplifters wanted to work there?
If the idea of a “dream job” is a myth, the employees at indie record store Empire Records didn’t get that memo. For them – self-identifying misfits and weirdos, prone to petty crime – the shop floor was a place where obeying societal norms didn’t count for much.
It’s 1995 in Delaware, US, an era in which music was becoming increasingly commodified with the rise of CD sales, and placing celebrities on a Swarovski crystal pedestal was considered the norm. Inevitably, everything that was once good
