[NewMusic] Fwd: Help ATA stop American Apparel from moving next door

[Tom Bickley]

So I suppose American Apparel is more Aldous Huxley's worker's  
"paradise" than Karl Marx's? -Tom

On Feb 10, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:

> when raskin sent this article to me, i read the headlines and the  
> first paragraph and thought it funny.
>
> then i read more of the article and it seemed too much like the  
> other pieces i read. the onion has a way of distorting the "truth"  
> just enough (but usually way over the top) to make it funny. i  
> don't find this article funny. it seems too close to the truth (i  
> forgot to mention in my earlier note that the women are often  
> offered drugs on the photo shoots...again, i don't have a big  
> problem with drug use, but...still, this creeps me out).
>
> pg
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/10/09, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Matt Davignon <mattdavignon at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Fwd: Help ATA stop American Apparel from  
>> moving next door
>> To: "Bay Area New Music Discussion Group" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 2:35 PM
>> Here's an article from the onion about the thing with
>> the models:
>>
>> http://www.theonion.com/content/news/14_american_apparel_models_freed
>>
>> Kind of funny, since the print version of the Onion always
>> has a big
>> American Apparel ad on the back. I always thought the AA
>> ads looked
>> suspiciously like child pornography. So much that I often
>> fold my
>> Onion in a creative fashion. (The same fashion that I fold
>> my SF
>> Weekly to hide the ho pages when reading savage love.)
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