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November 16, 2008 at 6:48 PM #306053November 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM #305600
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ParticipantI like a lot of music, so there could be several favorites, depending what’s playing at the time. RUSH lyrics most consistently say what I would want to say and the music is amazing.
November 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM #305967ParticipantI like a lot of music, so there could be several favorites, depending what’s playing at the time. RUSH lyrics most consistently say what I would want to say and the music is amazing.
November 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM #305979ParticipantI like a lot of music, so there could be several favorites, depending what’s playing at the time. RUSH lyrics most consistently say what I would want to say and the music is amazing.
November 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM #305996ParticipantI like a lot of music, so there could be several favorites, depending what’s playing at the time. RUSH lyrics most consistently say what I would want to say and the music is amazing.
November 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM #306058ParticipantI like a lot of music, so there could be several favorites, depending what’s playing at the time. RUSH lyrics most consistently say what I would want to say and the music is amazing.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #305605jennyo
ParticipantI worked for a “liberal” at an alternative newsweekly (similar to the Reader in SD) in the early 1990’s. The owners, a husband and wife, were total hippies but he was an amazing salesman. Those free weekly papers derive 100 percent of their income from advertising and this guy could sell ice to Eskimoes. He was an astute market researcher and figured out the markets that his paper would do well in (places with young urban liberals and gays) and then targeted businesses that wanted these groups to advertise. They expanded from one paper to three (three separate markets) and but for the internet would probably still be doing well. Craigslist creamed them in classifieds, and all newspaper readership is declining.
The pay was terrible but the benefits were good. In exchange for a relatively low hourly wage, we got health insurance and “fringe benefits” which included a free gym membership, concert tickets, and occasional gift cards to restaurants (all advertisers). We were expected to take the low pay because of the coolness factor involved with working at the newspaper. Whenever a commission salesperson started doing “too well” (i.e. making close to $100K) they would get fired.
It was actually a fun place to work and since I was in grad school at the time, I wasn’t looking for a career. I got to see lots of great concerts and eat at good restaurants for free*.
*I did pay income tax on the value of the freebies.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #305972ParticipantI worked for a “liberal” at an alternative newsweekly (similar to the Reader in SD) in the early 1990’s. The owners, a husband and wife, were total hippies but he was an amazing salesman. Those free weekly papers derive 100 percent of their income from advertising and this guy could sell ice to Eskimoes. He was an astute market researcher and figured out the markets that his paper would do well in (places with young urban liberals and gays) and then targeted businesses that wanted these groups to advertise. They expanded from one paper to three (three separate markets) and but for the internet would probably still be doing well. Craigslist creamed them in classifieds, and all newspaper readership is declining.
The pay was terrible but the benefits were good. In exchange for a relatively low hourly wage, we got health insurance and “fringe benefits” which included a free gym membership, concert tickets, and occasional gift cards to restaurants (all advertisers). We were expected to take the low pay because of the coolness factor involved with working at the newspaper. Whenever a commission salesperson started doing “too well” (i.e. making close to $100K) they would get fired.
It was actually a fun place to work and since I was in grad school at the time, I wasn’t looking for a career. I got to see lots of great concerts and eat at good restaurants for free*.
*I did pay income tax on the value of the freebies.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #305984ParticipantI worked for a “liberal” at an alternative newsweekly (similar to the Reader in SD) in the early 1990’s. The owners, a husband and wife, were total hippies but he was an amazing salesman. Those free weekly papers derive 100 percent of their income from advertising and this guy could sell ice to Eskimoes. He was an astute market researcher and figured out the markets that his paper would do well in (places with young urban liberals and gays) and then targeted businesses that wanted these groups to advertise. They expanded from one paper to three (three separate markets) and but for the internet would probably still be doing well. Craigslist creamed them in classifieds, and all newspaper readership is declining.
The pay was terrible but the benefits were good. In exchange for a relatively low hourly wage, we got health insurance and “fringe benefits” which included a free gym membership, concert tickets, and occasional gift cards to restaurants (all advertisers). We were expected to take the low pay because of the coolness factor involved with working at the newspaper. Whenever a commission salesperson started doing “too well” (i.e. making close to $100K) they would get fired.
It was actually a fun place to work and since I was in grad school at the time, I wasn’t looking for a career. I got to see lots of great concerts and eat at good restaurants for free*.
*I did pay income tax on the value of the freebies.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #306002ParticipantI worked for a “liberal” at an alternative newsweekly (similar to the Reader in SD) in the early 1990’s. The owners, a husband and wife, were total hippies but he was an amazing salesman. Those free weekly papers derive 100 percent of their income from advertising and this guy could sell ice to Eskimoes. He was an astute market researcher and figured out the markets that his paper would do well in (places with young urban liberals and gays) and then targeted businesses that wanted these groups to advertise. They expanded from one paper to three (three separate markets) and but for the internet would probably still be doing well. Craigslist creamed them in classifieds, and all newspaper readership is declining.
The pay was terrible but the benefits were good. In exchange for a relatively low hourly wage, we got health insurance and “fringe benefits” which included a free gym membership, concert tickets, and occasional gift cards to restaurants (all advertisers). We were expected to take the low pay because of the coolness factor involved with working at the newspaper. Whenever a commission salesperson started doing “too well” (i.e. making close to $100K) they would get fired.
It was actually a fun place to work and since I was in grad school at the time, I wasn’t looking for a career. I got to see lots of great concerts and eat at good restaurants for free*.
*I did pay income tax on the value of the freebies.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #306063ParticipantI worked for a “liberal” at an alternative newsweekly (similar to the Reader in SD) in the early 1990’s. The owners, a husband and wife, were total hippies but he was an amazing salesman. Those free weekly papers derive 100 percent of their income from advertising and this guy could sell ice to Eskimoes. He was an astute market researcher and figured out the markets that his paper would do well in (places with young urban liberals and gays) and then targeted businesses that wanted these groups to advertise. They expanded from one paper to three (three separate markets) and but for the internet would probably still be doing well. Craigslist creamed them in classifieds, and all newspaper readership is declining.
The pay was terrible but the benefits were good. In exchange for a relatively low hourly wage, we got health insurance and “fringe benefits” which included a free gym membership, concert tickets, and occasional gift cards to restaurants (all advertisers). We were expected to take the low pay because of the coolness factor involved with working at the newspaper. Whenever a commission salesperson started doing “too well” (i.e. making close to $100K) they would get fired.
It was actually a fun place to work and since I was in grad school at the time, I wasn’t looking for a career. I got to see lots of great concerts and eat at good restaurants for free*.
*I did pay income tax on the value of the freebies.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #305610Allan from Fallbrook
ParticipantRus: Rush is a great band. Definitely one of my top five. Their earlier stuff was the best IMHO, and “Moving Pictures” is my favorite LP (and, yeah, I remember LPs).
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.
Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.
Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #305977ParticipantRus: Rush is a great band. Definitely one of my top five. Their earlier stuff was the best IMHO, and “Moving Pictures” is my favorite LP (and, yeah, I remember LPs).
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.
Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.
Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #305989ParticipantRus: Rush is a great band. Definitely one of my top five. Their earlier stuff was the best IMHO, and “Moving Pictures” is my favorite LP (and, yeah, I remember LPs).
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.
Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.
Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.
November 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM #306007ParticipantRus: Rush is a great band. Definitely one of my top five. Their earlier stuff was the best IMHO, and “Moving Pictures” is my favorite LP (and, yeah, I remember LPs).
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.
Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.
Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.
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