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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Are American Spirits really made FROM real Indians?  Will we never stop
repressing and torturing the native peoples of this land?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Champeon" <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Fwd: [Money from the music industry]


> on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:52:11PM -0500, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> > This is cool.  I've been thinking some about this, actually.
> >
> > This is the settlement of a class action against the big record
> > companies for price-fixing in the 90s.  You can sign up online and
> > get between $5 and $20 as your share of the settlement.  I've checked
> > it out and it is for real.
>
> I dunno about the rest of you, but I get enough junk mail as it is. I
> don't see any sort of promise that the Music Industry[tm] won't
> immediately sell your name and address to anyone who wants it, use the
> proceeds to fund the payout, and then bury you up to your neck in "15
> albums for a dollar" mailers.
>
> But then, I collected those damn Camel Cash dollars for something like
> four years before I switched to American Spirits (made from real
> Indians!) and by the time I asked for the catalog (can you say scam?)
> they'd already stopped offering zippos, which is all I wanted in the
> first place - a dozen Camel Cash zippos.
>
> Why are you all laughing? This is serious business :)
>
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