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By Elianne Halbersberg
11.30.88
East Coast Rocker
Thanks to Rebecca Lewis for this article.
Guitarist Peter Buck remembers walking down an Athens street with bassist Mike Mills the day it hit him that R.E.M. had an actual recording contract. “We were both broke,” he recalls. “My girlfriend worked in a pizza place and she would slip us free food. [...]

By Chris Heim
11.14.88
Chicago Tribune
The golden boys of Southern pop wrap up their contract with I.R.S. (their debut on Warner Bros. is slated for early November) with a pleasant if rather pointless “best of” set. There are different takes of three previously released songs and another track that originally appeared on the “Made in Heaven” sound [...]