Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scirtp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi From: jimi@scirtp.UUCP (Jim Ingram) Newsgroups: net.music,net.flame Subject: Re: Coming soon: Adult Record Stores?? Message-ID: <377@scirtp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 17:25:19 EDT Article-I.D.: scirtp.377 Posted: Thu Aug 29 17:25:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 09:13:10 EDT References: <5121@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 48 Xref: watmath net.music:9047 net.flame:11754 > From: Jim Hofmann > Looks like our wonderful nuright-heirarchy is at it again. This time the > object of their fear is music, that's right, the sounds of the universe > must now come under Evangalical auspices for ratings. Alexander Cockburn > writes in the AUG 22 issue of the WALL STREET JOURNAL: > > ****************************************************************************** > THE Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) ... is the latest group to muster > voluntary system whereby albums deemed offensive will be stickered ... > Jim _Rolling Stone_ had a article about this issue, PMRC, industry reaction, etc. in a recent issue (the one with Prince on the cover). The article contained much the same info as the WSJ, but there was one additional item that was amusing. A radio station program director, when asked his opinion, said that "as long as I keep it clean and [obey FCC rules], fuck 'em." This is a good attitude. I just wish that more people felt that way, and would speak out. They wouldn't even have to be crude. The thing about these BIZZARO record-rating BOZOS is that they seem only to listen to music so they can be offended and have something to bitch about. It seems odd that the right wing, which constantly babbles on about "freedom," is the group that seems to advocate these constrictive ideas. At least they don't advocate the gov't stepping in (yet). I'm sure that if the industry does not police itself to their satisfaction, they'll ask Big Father (Ronnie) to do something about it. Can a right-winger explain why they want freedom for businesses to dump products on the 3rd world, kill workers without penalties, etc., but do not want the entertainment business to be free? "Living in the state of Jesse Helms and the Congressional Club, the country of Ronald Reagan, under the law of Ed Meese, and somehow managing to feel free." -- The views expressed by me are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of any other individuals or organizations. Jim Ingram {decvax, akgua, ihnp4}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi SCI Systems, Inc. P.O. Box 12557, RTP, NC 27709 919 549 8334