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Oh my, how can I not resist chiming into this article? So I worked at Spin Records when the decision was made to purchase, err, invest into No Cover. The idea being that, hey, here is a perfect venue to push our new bands into. Since we owned the content, we can dictate it. Mark acted as an owner and ran everything (failing at both) while Paul, his other half, was out selling advertising. I believe they later split up. Didnt work with Paul much, was saddled mostly with this imbecile. Mark was actually a lot like Ricky Gervais' character in the UK version of The Office, quite hysterical at the time. Especially his attempts at flirting and dropping the "I run a magazine" lines pretty thick to anyone with a pulse. Well, I guess we DID have our own issues so times were generally weird. The other thing I remember about No Cover were the piles of non-distributed magazines that sat in the back office where they worked out of. Wooden pallets as high as me (5'6") or higher, all tightly bound bundles stacked together. I imagine they printed more around 40k-60k tops, and half of those rotted in our offices each month . They used one of our white passenger vans to distribute mags themselves - kind of hard to move 100k of magazines in 1 van. I was originally assigned to do A/R and assist them on some other items but I saw the entire spinrecords ship was sinking and hauled butt out of there. Now I work for a law firm in Hillcrest. Memories!— January 11, 2011 11:13 p.m.