Imagine if you will.. You go to the record store and spend your hard earned cash on a prank call tape. You prepare yourself to laugh. You pop the cassette in the cassette player and press play. You hear what seems to be a funny tape and laugh out loud. Next week, you buy another prank tape and you notice the record label's logo is the same as the tape you recently purchased. Cool, no problem. You hit play and listen with anticipation until you begin to notice that some of the victims voices sound familiar. Alert! Fake prank calls!

About a year ago I bought a tape called, "The Ball Busters: No Jerk'n Off!" at a local record store. The cover said, "World Champion Phone Pranksters." I laughed and laughed at this tape, and noticed the record label with the cool smiley face next to name "D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. Records."

A month later, another tape came out by the same record company. "The 976-Girls: PhonePhuct." I listened to it only to find two flaws. One, the immaturity level was down when all I heard was phone sex whores calling up people for 10 minutes of free phone sex, but more importantly, the majority of the victims in each call sounded just like the pranksters from Ball Busters. I let it slide, and a year later I bought "The Ball Busters 2: No hang ups," which was almost as funny as the first one. Another month passed, and another tape comes out by the same record company: "The Telephone Head." Again, it was evident these were the voices of the Ball Busters.

Finally, I was convinced there was a lot of falseness going on here. I wrote a letter to the company only to get the envelope returned to me unopened. On the envelope was printed, "Company dosen't exist." Forget it, I thought, until I bought another album at the beginning of '97. It was called, "The Callgirls." I looked at the logo and it was that same smiley face from the Ball Busters, 976-Girls, and the Telephone Head. But instead of it saying, "D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. Records" it read, Laugh-a-lot Records." I popped in the CD, only to find that the Callgirls were the exact same calls as 976-Girls! I was dupped. I never did get ahold of the "company," but I still remind everyone I know about it's falseness. It's funny when you think these calls are real, but, like Milli Vanilli, it's hell when you found out you were suckered.