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Steve Albini’s Collections of Music, Books, and More Are Going up for Sale

Fans are being given the chance to buy up the contents of 'Steve Albini's Closet' as part of a newly-launched series of weekly sales.

The opportunity takes place as part of Steve Albini’s Closet, a newly-launched website which describes itself as an “entity created to distribute the treasures amassed by the late polymath.” The collection includes books, cassettes, singles, CDs, and LPs formerly owned by Albini, alongside zines, shirts, posters and flyers, original art, and both “enthusiasms” and “mysterious bargains.” He left behind a legacy of lacerating noise punk as the leader of his bands Shellac, Rapeman and Big Black, as well as a long list of credits engineering (he preferred that title rather than “producer”) such landmark albums as PJ Harvey ’s Rid of Me, Nirvana ’s In Utero, the Pixies ’ Surfer Rosa, as well as thousands of others.

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