POP/ROCK - March 28, 1990

Record Controversy Still ‘Nasty’: A Republican candidate for the Indiana state Senate will hold a news conference in Indianapolis today to announce the results of a private sting he conducted March 21, in which a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, wired with tape recorders, allegedly purchased copies of the 2 Live Crew’s sexually explicit album “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” at a Carmel, Ind., record store. John Price, the Senate candidate and head of Decency in Broadcasting, an Indianapolis-based media watchdog group, said he intends to use the incident to campaign for stricter obscenity codes in Indiana.