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Re: [ARSCLIST] Is The Record Shop Dead?
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From: "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.
>
Nope...you've watched too much TV and seen too many movies...!
All that sort of stuff went on a few hundred miles south of Illinois...
where one could buy factory-made alcoholic beverages, thus eliminating
any neccessity for the "home-made" stuff!
All we did in the way of anti-social/illegal activity was (if you weren't
quite 21 and thus couldn't legally drink in beer joints)...was to get
someone "of age" (often me...) to buy a case or two of cold beer, and
then set out on the (mostly blacktopped by then) "back roads" for our
under-age "road drinking!"
The odd thing is that a number of my schoolmates were killed in one-car
accidents on those back roads late at night...but we never made the
connection between our drinking style and our "deathstyle"...!
Steven C. Barr