How did the idea for Secret Stash records come about?
I spent the last five years selling CDs to accounts like Best Buy and Wal Mart as a sales and marketing consultant for various labels. All of my clients were affiliated with large distributors of some sort, so just about everything we did was funneled through a third party. I became fed up with the negativity that seems to drive that world. Everyone from the accounts themselves to the distributors and even my clients were always very negative. I must say, it’s hard to blame them for it though. Each year they watch their business deteriorate at a shockingly fast rate. Because the retail environment is so bad for compact discs, it would be really hard to have any level of success with obscure or extremely niche releases. But, as a vinyl junkie, I began to notice that people shop for vinyl in an entirely different way than people buying CDs. I realized that weird and rare releases could actually thrive in the vinyl world. So far, it seems to be working, too! Q: What sort of music does Sec
