SaltLakeUnderGround 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 22• Issue # 266 • February 2011 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Coordinator: Bethany Editor: Angela H. Brown Fischer Managing Editor: Marketing: Ischa Buchanan, Jea- Jeanette D. Moses nette D. Moses, Jessica Davis, Billy Editorial Assistant: Ricky Vigil Ditzig, Hailee Jacobson, Stephanie Action Sports Editor: Buschardt, Giselle Vickery, Veg Vol- Adam Dorobiala lum, Chrissy Hawkins, Emily Burkhart, Copy Editing Team: Jeanette D. Rachel Roller, Jeremy Riley. Moses, Rebecca Vernon, Ricky Vigil, Esther Meroño, Liz Phillips, Katie SLUG GAMES Coordinators: Mike Panzer, Rio Connelly, Joe Maddock, Brown, Jeanette D. Moses, Mike Reff, Alexander Ortega, Mary Enge, Kolbie Sean Zimmerman-Wall, Adam Doro- Stonehocker, Cody Kirkland, Hannah biala, Jeremy Riley, Katie Panzer, Jake Christian. Vivori, Chris Proctor, Dave Brewer, Billy Ditzig. 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Contributor Limelight Lindsey Kuhn Guest Cover Artist Screen-printing gig posters since the early ‘90s, this Colorado-based artist is one of the most prolific in the business. Kuhn’s work has been featured on posters promoting bands like Bad Religion, The Misfits, DEVO, The Melvins and many others. In addition to his work as a poster artist, he is also the owner and founder of Conspiracy Skateboards. This month, SLUG approached Kuhn to design a special anniversary cover to celebrate 22 years of Salt Lake UnderGround. Check out Kuhn’s work on swampco.com, or better yet, swing by his booth at the Salt Lake City Tattoo Convention Feb. 18 – Feb. 20 to purchase prints from the artist. 4 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 5 Dear Friends and Patrons, Antique shops (and antiquar- In the past few years, the Utah State ian booksellers) are not pawn Legislature, sponsored by Senator shops! Why subject our trades Jon Greiner and Rep. Rebecca to pawn shop rules, especially if Lockhart, have passed a new law, they’re not being currently enforced referred to as the “Second Hand against pawn shops? and Pawn Shop Bill, (S.B. 212) that will in essence put most, if not all, Speaking for my trade, fingerprint- antiquarian book shops, antiques ing and submitting identification to dealers, and other purveyors of the state on every individual that used or second-hand merchandise wishes to sell me their antiquarian out of business. These measures books and ephemera will simply not include requiring me to fingerprint work. Prominent citizens of this and and id everyone from whom I other states will refuse any such purchase used and rare books to process. submit to a state database, and catalog and maintain and upload Requiring all purchases to be a database of all inventory of inventoried and uploaded to a state used and rare books and submit database every 24 hours is also to the state database every 24 unworkable. I can’t afford it. We hours. I would like to know why acquired 10,000 books in the month Ms. Lockhart and Mr. Greiner are of December alone, most of which trying to put my shop and trade are sitting in storage waiting to out of business, along with the be priced and catalogued. Most entire antiques trade, and all other never will be catalogued. These are sellers of used and second hand largely low-cost paperbacks and goods? This is not a small busi- hardbound books that retail in the ness friendly law and will have not $3-$10 range, meaning that they only a severe impact on those of us just aren’t worth cataloging. merchants directly impacted by this new law, but will surely have a large I strongly disagree with the provi- and reverberating impact on City, sions of this bill. My bookstore is County and State governments and not a pawn shop, and the legisla- their revenue from sales tax and ture shouldn’t treat it like one. If this income tax. law is changed to apply to my busi- ness, I would either have to close Let me be clear: The law has or move out of state. Ken Sanders already been passed, although cur- Rare Books has been operating in rently there are a handful of exemp- Salt Lake City, in the County of Salt tions, which at this time include the Lake, and the State of Utah, since antiques trade and the antiquarian 1980. I would consider it a great book trade. We have been put on loss to myself and my community if notice that it is the intent of the the legislature were to force me out legislature and the sponsors of this of business. bill that the exemptions that have protected us the past three years In order to keep my business alive, will be eliminated in the upcoming I need the legislature to extend the legislative session. Without relief, exemptions covering the antiques my own establishment and likely and antiquarian book trades. many others in the antiques and book trades will also perish by July Sincerely, 31 of this year. Ken Sanders There are existing laws on the Owner, Ken Sanders Rare Books books that are sufficient to assist Salt Lake City, Utah the police and law enforcement to pursue the recovery of stolen goods SLUG Readers, and prosecute thieves. Speaking for It’s atypical for us not to write myself, we already employ two dif- something snarky when we ferent “Buyer Forms,” a short and a receive a letter. But quite frankly, long form, depending on the size of this is just too important to drop the purchase and from whom we’re our giant sarcasm ball on. Check purchasing what. We have success- out the full text of the bill here: fully used these techniques for the le.utah.gov/~2010/htmdoc/ past 20 years without any guidance sbillhtm/sb0212.htm or just take or interference from the state. Ken’s word for it. Regardless, you can visit utahsenate.org/map. Pawn shops and the internet, eBay shtml to find who your senator in particular, are still where the vast and representatives are and send majority of stolen goods are being them an email letting them know resold. If the pawn shop laws were you don’t support revisions to SB so effective in the first place, why 212. Support a local business and are pawn shops still the primary a Salt Lake City mainstay. bricks and mortar source of stolen goods? xoxo, SLUG Mag 6 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 7 By JP [email protected] SLUG Magazine celebrates 22 years at this it was the strange new locale or the art of DJing itself, and snowboard comp after parties, mainly month’s Localized music showcase! Join but Knucklz remembers a struggle at first as he tried to here and in Colorado.” the SLUG Mag crew as we celebrate over master the art of the beatmatch. 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