Originally from Minnesota, Lindsay moved to Portland in the late '70s, where he opened a record store, Singles Going Steady, downtown, and worked for then-fledgling concert promoter Monqui Presents. In the '80s, Lindsay co-founded Tim/Kerr Records with namesake Tim Kerr, initially to release a set of spoken word pieces by William Burroughs featuring accompaniment by Gus Van Sant. The label went on to release the debut albums by Dandy Warhols and Everclear, as well as recordings by Poison Idea, the Wipers and Pere Ubu, among many others. Two years after a distribution deal with PolyGram subsidiary Mercury Records fell apart, the label shuttered in 1999.