Or were you referring to the Cop Shoot Cop album from the early 90’s.

On the beer note, I have been to galleries that also promote some of the independent retailers around them by serving samples and the like, is that the same thing or different?

When did just going to the grocery store and buying a cup of coffee get so complicated anyway?

Keep up the good work everyone!

Anne — are you the same Anne Elizabeth Moore who was the editor of The Comics Journal for a while, back when I read it regularly and even published in it on occasion?

Really great work, people! Intelligent, critical and self-questioning conversation!

The issue of the mainstream co-opting the underground is just endlessly fascinating (and more than a little depressing) — I always think of Urban Outfitters, for some reason.

Anyway, good to see BaS kicking off 2008 on a strong — albeit weakened by sleep deprivation and infant illness — note. (It occurred to me while I was listening, where else can you listen to three people talk for an hour in a compelling/intelligent/entertaining way about a single topic anymore?)

My favorite piece of graffiti, which used to be visible from the Amtrak train as it swung out to the West before crawling backwards into Union Station, read “The American Dream Is Not The Only Dream.” Amen, brother!

Great show!

I’ve always felt that the rise of graffiti in and around Chicago (and therefore, probably elsewhere in this country) corresponded with the appearance of it in advertising. It was during the mid ‘80s that graffitti covered Manhattan was first being used as a backdrop for fashion photography and it was soon after that stylistic tagging started showing up on rooftops along the L and on the sides of buildings. Prior to that, the graffiti here was limited to gang turf marking and more benign stuff. I’m not saying that Madison Avenue caused the spread of tagging as an art form, but it certainly was instrumental.

On a side note, there has to be hundreds of early graffiti artists that are due royalties for the use of their works in those early ads.

On the Grolsch controversy, I wonder when payback time will be. At some point, will Grolsch “propose” a Grolsch-branded traveling exhibition stop at some of the galleries that have been serving up the free beer? Of course, it will be a show that also serves the public good in that it will be of economically and socially disadvantaged artists that would not otherwise have a chance at art careers, or something like that, making it harder to criticize. Corporate sponsors can be like drug dealers. Though, I’ve got to say, I love the free beer!

On a marginally unrelated point — what is the name of the group/album/song whose lyrics urge the importance of understanding Marx, used on the show a while back. It’s a sweet, summery, soul-sounding track (in which the female vocalist recounts coming home and finding her just-laid-off mother reading Das Kapital in the kitchen) and google has not helped me find it.