Win Records

WIN Records (short for Waldo International Network Records) was a Los Angeles, California based record label. It was independently owned and operated by Devin Sarno and Tom Grimley. The company was formed in 1989 as an avenue to release records by their band Waldo The Dog Faced Boy (the first release being Waldo's "Gifts Of Finest Wheat" LP.) Roughly around 1993, it was decided to expand operations and offer up the label's services to other like minded bands the first guinea pigs being Dogstar (later to become Charles Brown Superstar) with their self-titled 7". The label strove to maintain a musical "collective" with its roster. (If you check liner notes closely, you'll often find that WIN artists collaborated on each others recordings.) Over the course of a decade, WIN released upwards of 30 recordings (ranging from 7", 10" & 12" vinyl, cassette, & CD formats)....most of which were recorded at Grimley's own Poop Alley Studios. Friends/Artists/Comrades who made up the WIN roster included: Aloha Wednesday Benett Beth Capper The Centimeters Charles Brown Superstar Chika Chika Nels Cline + Devin Sarno CRIB CUT Danny Frankel Petra Haden Lynn Johnston The Magic Pacer Miss Murgatroid Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden Polar Goldie Cats Recess Rod Poole Solid Eye Speculum Fight The Uphill Gardeners Upsilon Acrux Waldo The Dog Faced Boy Jen Wood "The Poop Alley Tapes" (Various Artists Compilation) WIN Records ceased operations in 2000.