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"Iggy Pop has been named as the Record Store Day 2012 ambassador. The annual music event will take place on April 21 and will see a range of exclusive releases and gigs take place to celebrate independent record stores. Speaking about his new role, Iggy stated: &amp;quot;As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead. &amp;quot;A person should have a personality. You won&amp;#039;t get one d**king around on a computer. It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons.  &amp;quot;Persons who are interested in something you are. That&amp;#039;s how a record store or any shop that&amp;#039;s got some life to it should work. It&amp;#039;s not about selling s**t.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during my tender years.  &amp;quot;Small indie shops have always been a mix of theatre and laboratory. In the &amp;#039;50s and &amp;#039;60s the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat.&amp;quot; Iggy added: &amp;quot;You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick. Clerks in these places became managers, (like Brian Epstein), label heads, (Jac Holzman) and Faces on album covers (like me).&amp;quot; Last year&amp;#039;s Record Store Day ambassador was Ozzy Osbourne and the 2011 event saw special releases from Radiohead and Franz Ferdinand. Watch Iggy Pop&amp;#039;s music video for &amp;#039;Lust For Life&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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