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offices. This combination led to its demise at the end of 2001. The label's website was shut down a few months later. Internet users who wished to view the Man's Ruin website were simply greeted with the message: "sorry mansruin never paid their bill and their site is no longer here". All operations ended and licenses were returned to the various copyright holders in 2002.
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compilations, a brainchild of Kozik, which were released in highly limited editions on clear and colored vinyl. The CD versions of the first six volumes, as well as the rest of the entire Man's Ruin catalog, have gone out of print with the demise of the label. Subsequent volumes of
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