Terry Currier Credit: MEG NANNA

Terry Currier

Terry Currier MEG NANNA

Terry Currier first discovered Music Millennium in 1972, when he was a 16-year-old living in Vancouver, Washington. He’d recently gotten a job at the Jantzen Beach location of regional record store chain DJ’s Sound City and was dating a fellow clerk. One evening, the girl told him she had a surprise for him.

“I was thinking something different,” Currier says. “But she took me to Music Millennium.”

Currier was immediately floored by the store’s selection, which had already gained a reputation among record shoppers for stocking imports and other hard-to-find titles. He found himself visiting up to four nights a week.