Editing Dischord Records (section)

==History==
Influenced by existing labels like [[Dangerhouse Records]],<ref name="diffuser">{{cite web|last=Stafford|first=James|title=The Roots of Indie: Dischord Records|url=https://diffuser.fm/the-roots-of-indie-dischord-records/|publisher=[[Diffuser.fm]]|date=March 18, 2015|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref> MacKaye and Nelson took up residence in the now known "Dischord House" and ran the label out of its premises.<ref name="diffuser"/>

Dischord's first release was ''[[Minor Disturbance]]'' by [[Teen Idles]]<ref name="npr">{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Christopher|title=A New Generation of Punk at Dischord Records|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4813825|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=August 24, 2005|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref> released in 1980.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|last=Finn|first=Craig|title=The Faith and Void: the glorious Dischord of 1980s harDCore punk |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/27/faith-void-dischord-washington-hardcore-punk|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=October 27, 2011 |access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref> The band members cut, folded, and glued the record packaging themselves to keep costs down.<ref name="npr"/> The label's first [[Twelve-inch single|split 12"]] was ''[[Faith / Void Split]]'' by the bands [[The Faith (American band)|the Faith]] and [[Void (band)|Void]].<ref name="guardian"/>

Dischord limits itself to bands from [[Post-hardcore#The Washington D.C. scene|the D.C. scene]]. The label offers the same basic deal to all artists: Dischord fronts a certain amount of money to record and manufacture<ref name="spin"/> and once those costs are recouped, the label's distributor takes 30 percent of the profit<ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite news|last=Segal|first=David|title=The Dischord Label: The Perfect Pitch of Principles|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1995/07/03/the-dischord-label-perfect-pitch-of-principles/7d035db4-8bd0-44f1-87ae-93208a15f13c/?noredirect=on|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=July 3, 1995|access-date=April 8, 2019}}</ref> and the band and label split the remainder.<ref name="spin">{{cite web|title=Dischord Records: Out of Step with the World |url=https://www.spin.com/2003/06/dischord-records-out-step-world/|publisher=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=June 13, 2003|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost"/>

{{quote|"We don't use contracts, lawyers, any of those kinds of things", MacKaye says. "We are partners – they make the music, and we make the records."<ref name="npr"/>}}

Jeff Nelson has claimed the venture was never intended to be profit-making but was instead simply a way to get their friends albums in fans’ hands.<ref name="washingtonpost"/>

In spite of criticism over the years about how the label is run, MacKaye claims everything works and will continue to operate in the same fashion of no contracts or lawyers.<ref name="bray">{{Cite web|last=Bray|first=Ryan|title=Buttholes and lawyers: How a lawsuit threatened the indie music model|url=https://www.avclub.com/buttholes-and-lawyers-how-a-lawsuit-threatened-the-ind-1798246800|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=May 2, 2016|access-date=January 26, 2020}}</ref>

{{quote|"From the beginning of this label, people have said that the way we do things is unsustainable, unrealistic, idealistic, and we were just dreaming", he said. "Well, the dream is now 35 years old, so they can go fuck themselves."<ref name="bray"/>}}

In 2017, they put their catalog on [[Bandcamp]] for free streaming or purchase.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Josh|title=DC's Legendary Punk Label Dischord Records Makes Its Entire Music Catalog Free to Stream Online|url=http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/dcs-legendary-punk-label-dischord-makes-its-entire-music-catalog-free-to-stream-online.html|publisher=Open Culture|date=August 3, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref>

In May 2021, it was announced that Dischord would be re-releasing the label's first six 7" records in a remastered box set.<ref name="dischord200">{{cite web|last=Minsker|first=Evan|title=Minor Threat, Government Issue Reissues Coming in First Six Dischord Records Box Set|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/minor-threat-government-issue-reissues-coming-in-first-six-dischord-records-box-set/|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=May 15, 2021|access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref> With the catalog number "Dischord 200", it consisted of singles and EPs by [[Minor Threat]], [[Government Issue]], Teen Idles, [[State of Alert|SOA]], and [[Youth Brigade (Washington, D.C. band)|Youth Brigade]].<ref name="dischord200"/>