Michael

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>Tower Records refused to carry all MCA distributed releases

>in the early 80s. This was in protest of a 1.00 increase in

>record prices. The protest lasted 2 months and only ended

>when MCA recinded the increase.

Exactly - that was a *business* decision based on Tower's (correct)

belief that they were a sufficiently important outlet that they

didn't have to accept MCA's new pricing. It *wasn't* an emotional

decision based on the *content* of the MCA releases, or personal

dislike of some MCA executive.

>Tim Lowe was in jail for the death of a client during a

>particularly rough scene. He was eventually acquitted, if

>memory serves, but nobody would work with him after that.

Yes, I believe that the client (actually Tim's sugar-daddy du jour)

died from a heart attack while (consensually) tied up after doing

more drugs than were evidently good for him.

Thinking (correctly) that all of this would be a little hard to

explain to the cops, Tim and his girlfriend took off in the guy's

car.

I'm pretty sure that in the end he wasn't convicted of anything

connected with the death itself, but I think he did some time for

stealing the car and some credit cards etc.

>Pardon my ignorance, but what's a "crack head" ?

someone addicted to crack cocaine

they will typically be in one of two states:

- high on crack

- desperately trying to get high on crack