Re: [ARSCLIST] Is The Record Shop Dead?

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I can envision good-ol'-boys racing down dirt country roads in souped-up 
stock cars, running from the fuzz, banjos playing in the background.  
Maybe George Jones could re-write "White Lightnin'" to include 
"RIAA-men" with the G-men, T-men and revenuers. 

David Lennick wrote:
> Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "phillip holmes" 
> > <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > I didn't say I don't have several ZZ Top albums myself and the 
> > > George Jones Box Set.  Just talking about truck stops.  You ain't 
> > > lived till you had a truck stop chicken fried steak at 3 AM and 
> > > bought a greatest hits collection at the counter.
> > I have the ZZ Top discs (or did...LONG story...!); however, I can speak
> > with some authority on "truck stops!" I went to high school in McLean,
> > Ill's., site of the (evidently) no-longer-extant Dixie Truckers' Home
> > from the twenties onward! "The Dixie" was our regular hangout as teens
> > (and onward...). The original "Dixie" burnt down...IIRC in the 
> > sixties...
> > and was replaced by a larger, newer "Dixie" withing a couple of months.
> > In fact, my first wife was a waitress as the joint...and I regularly
> > picked her up at the end of her shift and gave her a ride to her house
> > (out on a farm...) so I spent many, many hours in that truck stop!
> >
> > I also used to stop at truck stops when travelling...the food was always
> > more than ample, affordable and usually quite edible!
> >
> > And, yes, most of them sold cassettes (and 8-tracks back in that 
> > era...),
> > the legality of whose origins were probably dubious at best. Wonder 
> > how/why
> > RIAA missed that...?!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
> I'm relating something I heard third-hand but I recall being told that 
> those illegal 8-tracks and cassettes were made in a state with looser 
> copyright laws than some (Tennessee?) and that the company in question 
> held payment in escrow for the artists. If they'd ever collected said 
> royalties, that would have legitamized their issue.  As I say, I have 
> no idea if any of this makes sense or if it's true.
>
> dl