The root of the recording industry came from distribution.
That was trucking.
It's why the same gangsters ran these concessions: recording, publishing, pressing and distribution. This is a "legitimate business" that grew out of racketeering - and has never dispensed with the original ethos - they just went "legit" and lawyered-up.
Must be some AFL-CIO people .. (Score:3)
Laying all that fibre, installing servers, manning phones at the offices of *AA attorneys, etc.
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The root of the recording industry came from distribution.
That was trucking.
It's why the same gangsters ran these concessions: recording, publishing, pressing and distribution. This is a "legitimate business" that grew out of racketeering - and has never dispensed with the original ethos - they just went "legit" and lawyered-up.
Re:Must be some AFL-CIO people .. (Score:2)
Oh, and the gangsters weren't Sicilian.
You know, Meyer Lansky, that lot.
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Oh, and the gangsters weren't Sicilian.
You know, Meyer Lansky, that lot.
Russian? Polish? Belarus? Jewish? Mobbed up with the Italians?
Which lot?
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You hit the intersection of the two streams.
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Egon, you said that was bad.
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Are you the gatekeeper?