Studies in Crap and Teen Beat Magazine Kill the Video Star
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brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from
area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do
this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
Teen Beat Video Rock Stars Magazine
Author: Probably
whoever it was who first used the words “monetize” and “youth
culture” in the same sentence.
Date: Fall,
1983
Discovered at:
The Cover
Promises: Michael Jackson has been pinned down like a frog in
Biology 101.
Also: Someone
needs to invent Photoshop.
Also: Willie
Aames, who is not in the magazine, touched this long enough to sign
it.
Representative
Quotes:
“When the leading
jean manufacturer and one of the hottest rock and roll groups join
forces, you know that something big is going to come out of it. Well,
those fabulous five Canadian Loverboys and Sassoon jeans have decided
to capitalize on just such an alliance!”(page 32)
“But what is this
band called INXS? Many just call them ‘six lads from Australia.’ One
word they forgot to include in that sentence was good-looking.”
(page 58)
