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Times bestselling book “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records” and a weekly Substack about books, music, and books about music called Message from the Underworld.

Times bestselling author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records” and of the novel “Make It Stop.”

For a logo, he turned to Black Flag bassist and SST Records co-founder Chuck Dukowski, who spelled out the Goldenvoice name in “Chinese”-style lettering left over from the cover art for the Minutemen’s “Paranoid Time” EP.

Ruland is the author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records” and the novel “Make It Stop.”

But just before he became legally blind in 1994 at age 23, Posen picked up a book about how to run an indie record label written by an employee at SST Records, the legendary South Bay label founded in 1978 by Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn.