Page 8-Sunday, December 9, 1979-The Michigan Daily bootlegs (Continued from Page 3) doesn't mean they're free from any wrongdoing, added the Justice Depar- tment official. Sippel explained that bootleggers usually use one of two methods for duplicating records or tapes: Pirating or counterfeiting. A pirated album is either the illegal recording of a live perfor- mance or the exact duplication of an existing album or tape. They are merketed with the logos of bootleg labels, such as the obese pig that ap- pears on Trade Mark of Quality recor- dings. Counterfeiting is the exact reproduc- tion of an album or tape, all the way from recording to packaging. "Counter- feiting is very expensive and it's very difficult for the average person to tell the difference," Sippel said. But the Justice Department spokesman cited counter- feiting as the most common method of unauthorized recording currently used. In fact, according to one bootleg collec- tor, many newer artists, are counter- feited regularly. "There are some eautiful counterfeits of the Talking Heads Live. These are fantastic recor- dings that look just like the real thing." The Ann Arbor collector added that bootleggers generally shell out about $1 per album in manufacturing costs. "Bootlegging is very much a cash business and a first name business. The bootleggers aren't paying any royalties. It's like dealing drugs. It's high profit for the people who manufacture them." MCA Records publicity agent Elaine - 5unduu Cooper recalled that about seven years ago, bootleg peddlers would approach concert-goers as they left the Los Angeles Forum, a concert and sports facility. But, she added, the panderedr were raking in only a 50-cent profit per album. B"The money went to the guys who were giving the peddlers the recor- ds. They were selling LPs of the band that happened to be appearing," she ad- ded. While some bootleggers take to the streets to sell their wares, others operate at a more professional level. One of these is the Amazing Kornyphone Record Label, which operated between 1974 and 1976. "They developed the whole record company image and got about 300 titles out," said the Ahn Arbor collector. "The album covers were a Xerox job and the albums were pretty well-made. They pressed in small lots to keep the bootlegs available." But bootleggers may not be able to survive the legal pressure and the in- flation and slow down in record sales_ that now plague the rest of the record in- dustry. The music bootlegger of the 1970s may in the next decade may go the same way as their liquor counterparts of the twenties. iran (Continued from Page 5) studies here) have been a waste because the Shah was in power. Now the revolution has helped, because when people come here, they think about what the country needs before studying" Abdullah comes from a "poor" family, but his uncle, a religious man, received money through religious net- works to send him to the University. "(My family) had no other choice. They knew I was so mad at the situation, that if I was there, I would be killed too." He speaks with obvious disdain for the high regard with which students like himself were viewed during the Shah's power reign: "Under the Shah, anyone with a Western education could get a job. There were piles and piles of engineers sitting around drinking tea and telling wolfe-- (Continued from Page 6) CONSISTENTLY, the author's prose is more than equal to his story. The descriptions of the first space flights offer just the right balance of technical detail and human interest, such that neither is slighted, and yet the work does not fall apart un- der the weight of its own information. The Right Stuff presents a candid, forthright view of the early space program much as the aggressive jour-F nalists of today might have presented were they writing in the early sixties. Pilots are glorified, but never roman- ticized (one of the early spacemen, it develops, urinated all through his suit just before take-off), and the realities of their home lives and the pressures of incredible publicity are tackled honestly and swiftly. At the hands of other writers, a chronicle of the Mercury Project could easily miss the mark altogether. It was not just rockets and astronauts, but a tradition, conviction, and purpose. Wolfe's work is a paean to jokes and doing nothing." "I could lead an average American life, but would never be at ease with myself, because I know by going there I can be of some help, no matter how in- significant," says Khalessi. "If people like me don't go back, Iran will never make it. Today is not a time of Iranians like me to think about personal gains. I am convinced people in my position would have enjoyed much more publicity and got better jobs under the Shah. But that would have been very superficial and not realistic, because the nation is not able to afford that prestige for a handful of people." His voice breaking, he adds, "And those people who took advantage of momentary gains created the Shah's regime, and made it what it was." righteousness that transcends orbits, splashdowns, and ticker-tape parades. There is no neat epilogue tacked onto this book, for the generation that reads it will know what happened following our early space triumphs: Kennedy assassinated; war in Indochina; student revolt; Watergate; taxpayer's revolt; the virtual extinction of the space program. Wolfe's account is as unspoiled Eby what has happened in the intervening time as was the tenacious era itself unspoiled by the onrushing inevitability of disillusionment. The enthused freshness of the prose in The Right Stuff properly ignores the loss of innocence and promise in the sixties and seventies. Our present generation - on the downward slide of the bell-curve, it seems - may find it possible to outstrip former generations in serving the demands of the self, but it will never have the courage, dedication, hope, and overall Right Stuff of an earlier time. . Wolfe does not look back ruefully. He rejoices in what was, and, by im- plication, might one day be again. Suay Co-editors Owen Gleiberman Elizabeth Slowik Associate editor ElisaIsaacson Cover photos by the Associated Press Supplement to The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, December 9, 1979