Vagrant Records started in Santa Monica in 1996, and by the end of the decade, the label had signed a lot of the biggest emo and pop-punk bands out there. Vagrant did everything in its power to present its roster as a united front, sending its bands out on the road together and putting out well-circulated label compilations. Vagrant got so popular, in fact, that Punk Planet once ran a cover story about how the label was turning the entire scene into major-label cannon fodder.