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defrogITEM [via BoingBoing]: An interesting flyer from 1976 warning of the dangers of 8-track tape piracy.
It’s only fair to point out that they’re talking about people selling pirated tapes for money, which is different from the modern argument of people sharing music via YouTube or whatever for free (contrary to what the RIAA would have you believe). On the other hand, look at how pirated 8-tracks totally failed to destroy the music industry.
Anyway, the greatest thing about this flyer is the anecdote of how Jerry Lee Lewis once pulled into a gas station, saw a rack of pirated 8-tracks, smashed it up, then instructed the pump attendants to tell whoever owned the racks that “Killer was here”.
How bad-ass is that?
I don’t know how true that is, mind. After all, the story comes second-hand from an RIAA investigator. But if it’s apocryphal, I don’t want to know.
Balls of fire,
This is dF
It’s only fair to point out that they’re talking about people selling pirated tapes for money, which is different from the modern argument of people sharing music via YouTube or whatever for free (contrary to what the RIAA would have you believe). On the other hand, look at how pirated 8-tracks totally failed to destroy the music industry.
Anyway, the greatest thing about this flyer is the anecdote of how Jerry Lee Lewis once pulled into a gas station, saw a rack of pirated 8-tracks, smashed it up, then instructed the pump attendants to tell whoever owned the racks that “Killer was here”.
How bad-ass is that?
I don’t know how true that is, mind. After all, the story comes second-hand from an RIAA investigator. But if it’s apocryphal, I don’t want to know.
Balls of fire,
This is dF
