----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> Uh-huh.  Given the shoestring economics of the Ashmont Records empire, I 
> feel it's safe to say that your hard-earned dollars would be going to such 
> radical causes as...rent.  Heat.  Phone bill.  That sort of godamn commie 
> pinko stuff.
>
> Good lord...

Reading this post, I have to say I stand corrected.  I said food and 
mortgage, not rent.  What was I thinking, that professional musicians could 
afford to own real estate...