In 1989, John Darnielle (dar-NEEL), a 22-year-old high school graduate from Claremont, California, started recording songs on a boombox that he had bought for about $100 at Circuit City. The boombox, a Panasonic RX-FT500 dual cassette player, was badly made, but in an interesting way. A grinding noise came from the wheels and was picked up by the oddly placed condenser microphone, so there was a permanent
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