SHORT TAKES : ‘Nasty’ Album Seller Is Fined

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A record store owner convicted of selling an obscene album by the rap group 2 Live Crew was ordered today to pay $1,000 to an elementary school for the performing arts.

Broward County Judge Paul Bachman imposed the maximum fine allowed the misdemeanor obscenity charge--$1,000 on store owner Charles Freeman. But he ordered that the money go to Ft. Lauderdale’s Walker Elementary School, which recently lost much of its musical equipment in a theft.

Freeman, the owner of E. C. Records, was convicted in an October trial of selling obscene material, a copy of the 2 Live Crew album “As Nasty as They Wanna Be.”