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“Dirty Gillespie” shills for the Yuppie Pricks outside the Austin Convention Center Wednesday afternoon. Gillespie said the capitalist Austin punk rockers weren’t actually paying him money, but did promise him a hot meal “and maybe a wristband.” He was starting to wonder if he’d been duped, though: “One of them was supposed to bring me a bottle of hooch, but he didn’t.”
This article appears in March 19 • 2004.
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