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WHITE
COLLAR CRIME
Their Laws Are Dimwit Greed.
Reviewed by Victor Infante
Not many people can look at something like the Enron scandal
or the Global Crossing scandal, or the messes with Vice
Prez Dick Cheney's Haliburton Corporation or Dubya's own
Harken Co., and understand that things like these are
not only criminal, but are a criminal in such a way that
effects the lives of thousands of people and undermine
our entire economy.
Sander Hicks gets it. Hicks, lead singer/songwriter of
the punk band "White Collar Crime" and publisher of the
radical Soft Skull Press is the sort of angry young man
who can scream about financial scandals and have it be
moving. This is a wonderfully antiestablishmentarian album,
the kind of album we don't see much of these days: a splendid
mix of intellectualism and seething, dangerous rage, ala
the Clash and Bad Religion before they started sucking.
Which is important, because with the guys running the
country now? Their laws ARE dimwit greed, and they HAVEN'T
worked for anything, and we need to let them know that
we're upset about it. Upset enough to bust some heads.
Victor Infante
This
review was also printed in the Worcester InCity Times.
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