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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sub_pop_logo_252.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"We're Not the Best, But We're Pretty Good"'']]
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4	->''"Ultra-loose grunge that destroyed the morals of a generation"''
5	-->-- Advertising copy for Green River's ''Dry as a Bone'' EP, released June 1986
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7	[[https://www.subpop.com/ Sub Pop]], a UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}-based record label, first became known as the company that introduced the world to the {{Grunge}} genre in [[TheEighties the late 1980s]], particularly by releasing the earliest recordings from Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}} and Music/{{Mudhoney}}. Since then, Sub Pop has continued to sign AlternativeRock bands, but has also diversified into other genres, including HipHop and RecordedAndStandUpComedy. The label has also released a multi-disc album of original songs from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''.
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9	The label is also known for the [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], often [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] sense of humor demonstrated in its advertising and publicity materials. When Sub Pop had financial problems in [[TheNineties the early 1990s]] (before Nirvana's huge success bailed it out), it distributed a FunTShirt reading "What part of WE HAVE NO MONEY don't you understand?" Its [[http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/09/dear-loser.html form letter]] to rejected bands starts "Dear Loser", and notes that "your demo package... is on it's [sic] way through the great lower intestine that is the talent-acquisition process".
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11	Although Sub Pop is known as an IndieRock label, Creator/WarnerMusicGroup owns a 49% stake in the company.
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13	!!Sub Pop performers, past and present, with Website/TVTropes pages:
14	[[index]]
15	* Music/TheAfghanWhigs
16	* Music/BeachHouse
17	* Music/BeatHappening
18	* [[Creator/HJonBenjamin Jon Benjamin]]
19	* Music/WeyesBlood
20	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' soundtrack albums
21	* Music/BuiltToSpill
22	* Music/{{Clipping}}
23	* Creator/DavidCross
24	* Music/{{Earth}}
25	* Music/{{Fastbacks}}
26	* Music/FatherJohnMisty
27	* Music/FleetFoxes
28	* Music/FlightOfTheConchords
29	** Creator/JemaineClement
30	* Music/{{Foals}}
31	* Music/{{Hazel}}
32	* Music/HotHotHeat
33	* Music/IronAndWine
34	* Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain
35	* Music/{{L7}}
36	* Music/{{Low}}
37	* Music/{{Mudhoney}}
38	* Music/{{Nirvana}}
39	** Music/KurtCobain
40	** Music/DaveGrohl
41	* Creator/PattonOswalt
42	* Music/OrvillePeck
43	* Music/ThePostalService
44	* Music/RedHousePainters
45	* Music/TheReverendHortonHeat
46	* Music/SaintEtienne
47	* Music/TheShins
48	* Creator/SarahSilverman
49	* Music/SleaterKinney
50	* Music/{{Soundgarden}}
51	* Music/SunnyDayRealEstate
52	* Music/UglyCasanova
53	* Creator/SukiWaterhouse
54	[[/index]]

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