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Videofreex: America's First Pirate TV Station and the Catskills Collective That Turned It On

Author
Parry D. Teasdale
Publisher
Black Dome
Place
Mensonville, New York
ETC archive
ETC0875
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Parry D. Teasdale. Videofreex: America's First Pirate TV Station and the Catskills Collective That Turned It On. Black Dome. 1999.

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