never quarantine the past
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted an image on this here blog, so I’m posting this older image I ran across last night. It’s a shot from last summer of the demolition of the building that housed UT’s student radio station KVRX. The studio was in the basement of a former medical building that was demolished to make space for science classrooms. The station now occupies cramped quarters in the communication complex. I’m told that the record library is down the hall from the studio, so DJs have to hustle to find a record while they’re on air.
Last night, I was listening to KVRX when Pavement’s “Gold Soundz” came on the air. KVRX has a policy of playing music that’s ignored by mainstream radio. Although I like “Gold Sounds” quite a bit, I was tempted to call the station and complain that Pavement was insufficiently indie. Although Pavement is on an indie label, I heard “Gold Sounds” so many times in college that it might as well be The Rolling Stones. Of course, the DJ was probably in elementary school when the record was released in 1994 — for her, she was probably unearthing a forgotten classic..
