The Quest For Every Gap Store Playlist Ever

In August 2002, I was astir apt back-to-school shopping pinch my mom astatine our section mall, bouncing from shop to shop for backpacks, socks, and a first-day-of-school outfit. Gap was nary uncertainty 1 of our stops - and acknowledgment to Michael Bise, I now cognize what euphony was playing arsenic we browsed.

When Bise first started moving astatine a Gap shop successful Dallas successful 1992, nan first point that struck him was nan store's music.

"Just correct away, it was truthful different from what I was expecting," Bise says. It wasn't nan classical soft instrumentals of a concatenation section store, nor was it popular power hits. There was house, dance, David Bowie heavy cuts, The Bangles - 4 ho …

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