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 THE ARCHIVE 

Every strip so far, oldest first, the way a record plays: start at the outside and work in. All four on one page come to about 186K, so on a modem this takes a minute. Put a record on.

TRACK LISTING
#1  Two Boxes  .... Sat. 9/4/99
#2  Da-Da-Dum-Dum  .... Sat. 9/11/99
#3  Saving Up  .... Sat. 9/18/99
#4  One More  .... Sat. 9/25/99
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#1  TWO BOXES
Saturday, September 4, 1999
SIDE B #1, Saturday 9/4/99. Panel 1: Adam flips through the long bins of used records, the red price gun in his hand. Caption: EVERY DAY SOMEBODY SELLS US THEIR WHOLE LIFE IN TWO BOXES. Panel 2: A gray-haired man in glasses and a zip-up jacket sets a cardboard box of records on the counter. MAN: MY WIFE SAYS THEY GO OR I GO. Panel 3: Under a hanging lamp, Daniel holds one record up to the light by its edges, his eyes shining. DANIEL: THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL. Panel 4: Seen from behind, Elisabeth and Daniel watch the man walk out the door. ELISABETH: HE CHOSE THE WIFE. DANIEL: HE CHOSE WRONG.
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The first one. It isn't every day, really. It's most weeks. Daniel always pays fair for those boxes. He says you should never get a bargain off somebody's bad day. Elisabeth said the first line in the last panel and Daniel said the second, just like that, and then we went back to work. The records were good. They're in the bins now.
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#2  DA-DA-DUM-DUM
Saturday, September 11, 1999
SIDE B #2, Saturday 9/11/99. Panel 1: At the register, a teenage boy in a baseball cap leans across the counter toward Elisabeth. BOY: DO YOU HAVE THAT SONG? IT GOES DA-DA-DUM-DUM. Panel 2: Elisabeth, deadpan, rests her chin on her hand. ELISABETH: THAT'S EVERY SONG. Panel 3: Adam, eyes closed and the price gun in his hand, hums while little red music notes float up. ADAM: DA-DA-DUM... DUM-DA? BOY: YES! THAT ONE! Panel 4: Elisabeth stares from behind the register while Adam holds up a CD. ELISABETH: HOW DID YOU DO THAT? ADAM: SEVEN YEARS OF RETAIL.
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Elisabeth gets this about three times a week, and she has decided it's every song. She isn't wrong. I got this one on the second try. People think seven years of retail means knowing a lot of records. Mostly it means knowing how people hum.
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#3  SAVING UP
Saturday, September 18, 1999
SIDE B #3, Saturday 9/18/99. Panel 1: At the listening station, a skinny kid with a brown bowl cut, a denim jacket and a gray backpack listens in big headphones with his eyes closed, while Adam watches from across the bins. ADAM: THE LISTENING STATION KID IS BACK. Panel 2: Daniel prices a box of records behind the counter. DANIEL: EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. HE'S HEARD THE WHOLE ROCK SECTION. Panel 3: Adam stands by the bins with the kid, who has taken the headphones off. ADAM: YOU KNOW, YOU COULD BUY ONE. KID: I'M SAVING UP. Panel 4: The kid heads off past the wall of CDs, his back to us, and behind him Daniel slips a CD into an open gray backpack and looks out at the reader over his half-moon glasses. Caption: DANIEL WILL DENY THIS.
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He's about fourteen. He comes in after school, puts the headphones on and listens with his eyes closed, one record after another. He has never bought anything, and nobody minds. Panel 4 is what I saw from the register on Thursday. I asked Daniel about it after. He said he had no idea what I was talking about, and went in the back.
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#4  ONE MORE
Saturday, September 25, 1999
SIDE B #4, Saturday 9/25/99. Panel 1: Night. The store is dark, with a lamp glowing red in the front window. Behind the counter, Daniel sets a record on the turntable. Caption: NIGHT. DANIEL: ONE MORE BEFORE WE LOCK UP. Panel 2: Elisabeth, Adam and Daniel sit side by side on the counter in the dark, listening, with little red music notes drifting in the air. Elisabeth has her eyes closed. No words. Panel 3: A close-up of the record spinning on the turntable, its label red. Caption: THIS IS THE PART OF THE JOB NOBODY PAYS US FOR. Panel 4: Outside on the sidewalk under a streetlight, Elisabeth and Adam walk off while Daniel locks the store's door. ELISABETH: SAME TIME TOMORROW? ADAM: SAME TIME TOMORROW.
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The last record of the night. I'd been trying to draw this one since before strip #1, and it's the one I'm least sure of and like best. There's more about it under the strip on the front page.
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