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Aftertoto“Thisas we watched a wormhole rip wide open. For some of us this is a wormhole that never closed,but for those sane enough to throw their CD collections absent with their MySpace profiles, it meant a lot of skeletons and a lot of closets. By mid-afternoon the hashtag (50k tweets and counting) was charting higher than the second Cooper Temple Clause album. I guess it’s true what they say: if you can remember indie, or you were there.
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Source: theguardian.com