Mail Order: How Punk Built an Underground Economy Before E‑commerce

The episode traces how early punk bands and independent labels—SST, Dischord, Lookout! and others—used handwritten catalogues and money orders to reach a worldwide fanbase long before the web. It looks at the logistics of printing, mailing, customs delays, and how fans kept the movement alive through DIY networks of record stores, fanzines, and all‑ages spaces.

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