Talk:Inner Sanctum Records

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I just did a major re-write of this article, which still needs more references. I realize the article in its previous state probably represented a lot of effort on someone's part, but it simply read too much like a fan site and not much like an encyclopedia. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

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I have removed the following text from the article. It is original research and I think WP:SELFCITING, WP:NPOV and WP:COI also come into play.

Following the departures of both Kanter and Ruttenberg in the early 1980s, Bryson eventually sold the store, who still owne 1%, to I, Patrick + my girlfriend partener Valerie, in 1985. In 1981 the store sold 1.2 mill in stuff, the year before i bought it they only did 10,000 bucks. When Joe sold it, it was bought by 5 diff people, a lawyer, docter, 2 others who also put in money and the 5th guy, who who managed it instead of puttin in cash, well after 4 years he washed his hands of the store and let some local punk dude take it over and he tried to make some sort of hardcore punk store of it, and i use those words losely. Punk music is cool, but when a record store or other biz specialize so much its a death sentence, i mean like Sound Exchnge already had the punk scene sewn up, there just wasn't enough punks to go around...lol. Inner sanctum was just a shell of itself when i bought it. We trippled the biz the 1st year and it just got better as the years went passed. I tried to make it a pregressive hippe store for the 90s. By 1997, property values throughout Austin had increased dramatically, and Inner Sanctum and the other tenants of Bluebonnet Plaza, like Les Amis had our rents trippled. Ours was 750 and went to 2,300 in 1 month. We couldn't handle it, so we rented for 2 more weeks to sell out most of the cheaper records. mostly the 5 buck stuff, that we sold for 1 dollar each. We sold around 2,000 records in those 2 weeks. I bought a 27 foor 1978 passenger school bus and moved the best 1,000 records left to my warehouse. The reason we all were forced to vacate, was when the older owners, which were 2 familys that owned, the half a block for 60 years, retired and let the younger 30-40 years take over. they wanted to make some kind of show place out of it. And you see it today as some sort of yuppie shoppin center there, like a california smoothies place, that infamous coffee place i won't mention. It sucked, that buildin was the last real original hippie buildin in town. After that, the drag wasn't the drag anymore, just another college strip mall area. You still have the street venders on 23rd but it's still not the same. I still own 100% rights to Inner Sanctum, the name, the artwork involved etc., etc., like the famous dillo in the ear poster / t-shirt, even though some local lame dude keeps trying to sell his own limited edtion prints of it, even though its a copyright infringement, and you know who i'm talkin about...lol.

Some day i will reopen Inner Sanctum, when the time is right, when i find the right place, you can count on that.

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