When starting up this venture, a lot of names were bandied about. Here they are, along with why they were considerd (and rejected). “Respect Records”How this came to be the first name, no one knows. It was ditched early on because far too many people thought it sounded hokey, and like a junior high school after-school special record company. In retrospect, it wasn’t such a bad name. It was short, and an alliteration – both always good. It hasn’t been used by anyone else, and it can be easily abbreviated to the very cool (and stylish) RR Records. This would match up with the founding company (Design Different – DD), and would look really good as a nice logo with the first R flipped like in a mirror. Finally, it also conveyed to artists that we are a label that will finally respect your music / integrity, and to listeners (especially of our future hip hop acts) that we’re a feminist friendly label. But, turns out, the name still sounded hokey. Different Sounds / Sounds Different / Sound Different Records. This is a pretty straight-up play on our overarching company name of Design Different. This name lasted several months, but just didn’t inspire us. Antiquarian Records The final choice (so far, we’ve still got a little while to change our name again before the first album drops). Based loosely on the name of an Omaha book store & hippster hang out, this name is all about what’s old is new again. The Arts & Crafts movement of the 1920’s, the collective space / live-work / settlement house movement, the anti-war movement, the populist & progressive era movements– It’s all here again and we want to be a part of it. Antiquarian records won’t be putting out CDs that you get hit over the head with either (otherwise we might have gone with “blockbuster,” “pop,” “smash,” or something). But we plan to produce little gems that indie kids will search out, devour, and love. That’s what an antiquarian bookstore is like, that’s what antiquarians themselves are like, and that’s the type of music we’re going to try to make. Or something like that.