606 Records

CTL-E-0546 · Business · other · 2011

Verified evidence grade of this record

606 Records was founded after co-owners Andrew Mitchell and Tim Unsell jokingly agreed at a 2011 party that they should open a record store together.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-016; source research type(s): business. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Vinyl Me Please via Milled, 'Support these Black-owned record stores in the Midwest' (2021)

Record CTL-E-0546 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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