A royalty check for Kurt Cobain over 25 years ago was found in a Seattle record store

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(CNN) - Employees of this Seattle record store are accustomed to rare finds. But they never thought they would find a royalty check in the name of Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain.

Easy Street Records found a check from Broadcast Music Inc. that was handed to Kurt D. Cobain of Olympia, Washington. It was dated March 6, 1991, a few months before Nirvana triumphed with his album "Nevermind."

Store owner Matt Vaughan said he was ordering the basement when he found the uncollected check for $ 26.57 hidden in a collection of itineraries of the band's tours. He had bought the itineraries along with a box of records in 1993.

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Royalty check found at Easy Street today. #kurtcobain @nirvana This is dated 06/03/91, 6 months before #nevermind would change the face of the planet. We're guessing the next royalty checks were a bit larger than only…. $ 26.57

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"Last week I was moving some things and I think I had a moment of reflection, I sat in the basement and started to leaf through each page," he told CNN. "It was then that these thin pieces of paper fell."

Cobain's royalty check is not the only thing Vaughan and his staff have found.

Within the collection there was also a money order receipt for 177 Cobain dollars of 1990.

Vaughan noted that the money order was among the 1992 Cobain itineraries. During the past few days, Vaughan has wondered why Cobain would take an old postal money order on tour.

"It's almost as if they were reminders to him, or good luck charms, of more difficult times he had been through," Vaughan said. He said he also found a pass to stand behind the scenes with Cobain's name and a medical bill.

“It also puts things in perspective that he was no different than any of us. We all understand what it is to be late on a doctor's bill. We know what it means for your landlord to only accept cash. We know what it is to have a check so small that you don't even want to go to the bank to cash it. ”

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Money order #kurtcobain to his landlord recently found at Easy Street Records. $ 177 rent, dated 04/09/90 a year before #nevermind would go onto change music as we know it. Doubtful he had anymore money orders to landlords. RIP Kurt, we will always miss u. You changed the game, your music will last forever. #seattlelove #aberdeenlife #olympiawashington @nirvana

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Cobain and Nirvana led Generation X through the grunge era of the early 1990s.

Cobain, 27, was found dead at his home in Seattle on April 8, 1994. His death was declared suicide.

A quarter of a century after his death, Cobain's musical legacy still inspires the younger generations. Rolling Stone named Cobain and Nirvana on their list of "The 100 Best Artists of All Time." This summer, Cobain earned a musical credit on the song "Panini" by Lil Nas X.

He is not just a rock star. It is a cultural icon.

"He represents more than our little town," Vaughan said. "It's much more than that".

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