Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today," says Rock-Concert Producer Dennis Wilen, "any kid can take his tape recorder to a Rolling Stones performance and become a millionaire." Bootlegging-the production and sale of records by black-market operators -is easy. Enough of it is going on that record-industry executives are in a spin. Perhaps one out of every four stereo tapes sold in the U.S. is a bootleg, turned out by somebody who simply copied the original. According to industry estimates, bootlegging costs the recording companies, music publishers and artists as much as $100 million yearly in lost sales and royalties. Except...
...running artists: Bob Dylan, The Band, Jefferson Airplane-any star or group whose name alone is worth fat sales. The practice has long been a problem (Frank Sinatra records were bootlegged in the '40s), but technology has only recently made it attractive to young entrepreneurs. A variety of tape copiers, from $40 recorders to $100,000 stereo duplicating systems, can turn out cartridges, cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes, usually in less time than it takes to listen to them. Music-trade publications and underground newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many an Aquarian-Ager has been able...
...greatest competition for legitimate recording companies comes from big-time adult bootleggers. An outfit called the National Manufacturing Co. had nearly 100 workers on split shifts turning out 80,000 illegal tapes a week at its factory in Phoenix, Ariz., when marshals recently raided the place after a suit was brought by 59 music-publishing firms. In two months National Manufacturing had netted nearly $2,000,000. Some companies offer $6.95 tape cartridges for as little as $2.50 freight paid, with extra tapes thrown in with every large order to make up for any defects. Other shady operators, who typically...
...month and plans another nine by year's end, mostly in Japan's mushrooming suburban areas - following Mao's precept to "take small and medium cities first, take big cities later." Defying pressure from Japan's protectionist agricultural bureaucrats, who have burdened him with red tape, Nakauchi imports the cheapest foreign food that he can find: cattle and onions from Australia, oranges and grapefruit from the U.S. He has turned his retail outlets into small department stores, selling not only food but Chinese pajamas, Korean shirts and, if the price is right, even Japanese-made goods...
...horde of pigeonholers, polltakers, politicians, consumer experts and scholars who seem bent on reducing vast groups of individual Americans to some neatly labeled lowest common denominator of fear, status, greed or need. Coles, after all, is a Harvard psychiatrist. He has been seen in the company of notebook and tape recorder. For more than a decade he has studied and written voluminously about troubled children, blacks, migrant workers-all subjects that are now ritually lamented in near-faceless collectivity as "problems...