ON this date in 1991 - Alice Cooper sold his new album "Hey Stoopid" in New York's Times Square for 99 cents.

Rock Marketers Bun Man and Mr. Purple had recommended the novel approach to selling as they knew they would get high volume in Times Square and they also knew that when Alice would yell 'Hey Stoopid' in Times Square, 4 million 'peeps' would turn around and pay attention to him...