"Buy This Book", written and illustrated by political cartoonist and post-'60s Yippie activist Pete Wagner, who distributed copies of the "Yipster Times" on the University of Minnesota campus in the mid-1970s, was promoted by Hoffman, who said the book "manages to reach to the limits of bad taste." "Buy This Too" recounts efforts by a guerrilla street theater gang named the "1985 Brain Trust" to "fight the New Right with Yippie-like myth-making tactics." The Brain Trust was inspired by a series of meetings and interviews between Wagner and Paul Krassner in Minneapolis during May 1981, as Krassner performed stand-up comedy at Dudley Riggs ETC Theater.