Video: Blank Dogs - Poison Ivy

To close out our Captured Tracks spotlight, founder Mike Sniper laments The Death of "Blind Buying." Ten-year-old Mike Sniper wandered around his local mall record store in suburban New Jersey, not knowing that one day he would own independent label Captured Tracks. Buying albums based on covers, young Sniper shaped his eclectic and varied taste today. Present-day Sniper wonders how instantly-accessible music will shape the music of tomorrow. Sniper also fronts the band Blank Dogs and owns the Co-Op 87 record store in Brooklyn. I [...]