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Any Nirvana buff worth his faded Smiley T-shirt can tell you that Bleach was recorded for the princely sum of $606.17 — which might be more than it cost to produce all 12 clips found on the Sub Pop Video Network: Program 1, originally released on VHS during the salad days of 1991. And that’s perfect — how could big budgets and carefully weighed treatments possibly have done justice to the gloriously raw noise belching forth from Sub Pop’s Seattle headquarters? The flashiest special effect might be the flaming Barbie and Ken dolls in Thee Headcoats’ conceptual “Girl of Matches,” a colorful romp that also serves as a reminder that the garage-rock revival stretches back further than the White Stripes. In contrast, Mudhoney’s “Here Comes Sickness” is a live, black-and-white Charles Peterson photo come to life. Mark Lanegan’s stark “Ugly Sunday” bolsters the bleakness with footage of the Emerald City’s seamy underbelly. But that downer vibe gets obliterated by Tad’s hysterical “Stumblin Man” and “Wood Goblins” videos. The latter features a behemoth, flannel-clad, chainsaw-wielding frontman Tad Doyle menacing a hapless hiker. Acts such as the Dwarves, the Fluid, and Beat Happening also get their due, but the real crowd pleaser is the rare 1990 Nirvana video for “In Bloom.” Shot two years before the more famous Ed Sullivan version, this one mixes performance shots with footage of Kurt, Krist and then-drummer Chad Channing cavorting through New York City, eating messy hot dogs and baffling bystanders with see-through masks and X-ray specs. Just the thing for your next grunge-flashback party.