So, what has Merge Records given us over the last two decades? — Neutral Milk Hotel — Arcade Fire — M. Ward — Spoon — …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead — both of Conor Oberst’s side projects(Conor Oberst and Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band) — The M. Ward/Zooey Deschanel side project, She and Him And a lot of other great bands as well. Their albums are still, god forbid, good albums as a whole, or taken in parts(Neutral Milk Hotel’s «In The Aeroplane Over The Sea» is a perfect example). In the age of MP3, any label that can put together high quality bands like this is fine by me :)