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#JEALOUS: This 17 Year Old Owns His Own Vinyl Record Label

17 year old high school junior Jarrett Koral founded Jett Plastic Recordings as a vinyl only label. This year  for Record Store Day, he released  a seven-inch by actor Macaulay Culkin’s. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/05/jealous-this-17-year-old-owns-his-own-vinyl-record-labe

jarred17 year old high school junior Jarrett Koral founded Jett Plastic Recordings as a vinyl only label. This year  for Record Store Day, he released  a seven-inch by actor Macaulay Culkin’s Velvet Underground cover band.  

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Macaulay Culin was not Jett Plastic's first release since launching in 2012  and the very indie label will add 6 more to its dozen deep catalog by the end of the year.  The label's name was inspired by the Paul McCartney Wings' hit "Jet".

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17 year old founder Jarret Koral calculates that it costs him about $2,000 to put out a seven-inch and a little more to release an album. So far, he's plowed any small profits back into the label.

"I still have school, but I pretty much devote all my time to the label,” Koral told the Guardian. “Shipping orders, packing orders, doing promotions online, contacting news outlets – even just talking to the musicians takes a lot of time."

“I know it sounds corny, but the label is mainly me trying to put out what I like and want to get other people to listen to. What I was trying to do is let them have an outlet for their music. I was just trying to help out.”

Here's an earlier interview with Koral.

 

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