But the money—as always with Smith—wasn’t enough, whether for the drugs he loved or the films he loved to make with them. So Smith sought out a record label head by the name of Moses Asch to buy thousands of his records. Smith needed cash more than shellac; Asch demurred.
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Unlike their previous
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The music business, for all intents and purposes, shuts down each year in mid-December and reawakens a week or so into the new year, with a few new releases hitting the record bins and streaming services on the first weekend in January.
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