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Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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