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One retailer is focusing on the prison population and cassette tapes to overcome the internet piracy woes of the music industry. Why are cassettes popular in prison? CDs can be made into shanks.
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Goffeney, lead guitarist and vocalist for the band Big Toe, loves playing at coffee houses like Le Stats in his hometown of San Diego. But he’s not limited to cafés. Just as varied as Goffeney’s attire—black silk shirt, construction-worker-orange shorts and brown sandals—are the venues where Big Toe rocks and the roles Goffeney himself has played: actor, advocate and artist. But in the same way that a coal-black top, tangerine shorts and sepia shoes can jive together in just the right way, this musician’s diverse endeavors are the proverbial roads that all lead to one cause: unity among people.
Born without arms, Goffeney has been a performer as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest performances were between ages eight and thirteen, when he helped host Easter Seals and March of Dimes telethons. “I was their poster child,” he laughs. “So I think I got over the fear of performing. Well, actually, I never really got the fear of it.” He always knew he wanted to be a musician, but playing trombone in the school band didn’t satisfy his desire to rock. So a friend gave Goffeney a guitar demonstration, and he just imitated what he saw his friend do—only he imitated with his feet.
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