Steve Albini and I are walking around a sporting goods store in Chicago. A Pixies song plays over the store sound system. 'Watch this,' Steve says, walking over to the baseball glove section, which becomes an oddly shaped tape recording device 'If you slow it down, it matches their BBC version,' as he demonstrates, maneuvering two ball gloves in a way that causes the two versions of the song to suddenly be in sync. I then ask him if he liked the Gil Norton-produced records, to which he snickers and says 'If he's good enough for Grohl, he's good enough for me.'