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These figures are upsetting. Not that I have the sort of dinosaur mentality that makes me cling hopelessly to extinct and obsolete artifacts. I was completely pleased by the demise of that quintessentially 1970s conduit of musical mush, the eight-track tape, which had the annoying habit of dividing songs as it switched tracks, and also seemed to be what you bought for such embarrassing works (mistakes?) as the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever, or anything by Andy Gibb, Bachman Turner Overdrive or Barry Manilow (yes, I admit it, I once owned this stuff; anyone who tells...
Together long enough to master timing and goofy faces, the pair are best when they forget about dope and concentrate on telling jokes. When hundreds of police arrive to arrest them, they innocently wander out the back way, mingle with the cops, and make an eight-track recording of their sirens. This may not sound funny, but it is--humor being relative. Later, they play the instruments in a music store so loudly that they catch on fire. They take over the stage in a nightclub and tell dirty jokes until a chair-throwing brawl breaks out. They wander through...
...motorcycle lifestyle. There are "macho suspenders in Harley colors," and a three-record set of "War Songs of the Third Reich." You can order a handcrafted, bone china beer mug in the shape of a human skull, skull, or a part of your motorcycle plated in gold, or an eight-track tape that will teach you how to "make your dog a real man-stopper...
...chain of New York record stores by buying old jazz recordings for resale. Last week a Brooklyn grand jury indicted Sam Goody Inc., President George Levy and Vice President Samuel Stolon for illegally improving on the founder's good thing. Goody and its officers were charged with counterfeiting eight-track tapes and cassettes and then selling them in their stores. They are also accused of returning unsold counterfeits to the record companies for credit as original merchandise...
Duplicating records and tapes is now a fairly cheap and easy process, costing about $1 for a record and somewhat less for an eight-track tape. Smith charges that organized crime figures steal so-called master stamps, which permit nearly perfect reproduction copies. Album covers are then duplicated with the skill of a forger making a $100 bill...