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Scissor Sisters’ New Record Actually, Truly Banned By FYE — For Real!

9/27/06, 2:41 pm EST

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A few days ago we heard FYE might be banning the Scissor Sisters’ new record Ta-Dah from their stores. We got psyched. Does FYE have issues with the gays? Did the band promise to let FYE execs sing “Comfortably Numb” with them onstage then back out at the last minute? No no, turns out this whole fracas is due to some ultimately kinda obvious comments Jake Shears said at a retail convention in Kissimmee, Florida (seriously.)

“I was like, ‘FYI, FYE: Your record prices are too high. Records shouldn’t be over fifteen dollars’” Shears told Rolling Stone in the issue on stands now. “I went into an FYE to buy the Raconteurs CD and it was twenty bucks. I said, ‘Why is a new CD twenty dollars? That’s absurd!’” Company honcho Jim Litwak’s response: “He didn’t bring it up to register, because if he did, he would’ve seen that the CD was on sale.” Well there you go. Jake Shears: an idiot with no faith in the system.

Elizabeth Goodman

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sabrina | 9/27/2006, 5:16 pm EST

shears is right. why go to fye to buy futuresex/lovesounds for $18.99 when i can go to target and get it for $9.98. seriously fye sucks!

lettie | 9/29/2006, 7:29 pm EST

fye SUCKS! Support Tower!

trebor | 10/18/2006, 2:26 am EST

I totally agree with Jake Shears comments in Rolling Stone. I work for F… Y(our) E(mployees),who bought the company I used to work for 3 yrs. ago,turning the best music store in the Detroit area into manure. We molest the public for 20 hard earned dollars for a CD,then are expected to badger these people to try and sign them up for some inane magazine subscriptions,which have NOTHING TO DO WITH MUSIC!!!!! Please let Jake know that there is one FYE employee that supports his comments,but that bathing in their own excrement is too good for them. One more thing,our company sells MP3 players,the very device that will be the end of retail music as we know it. I hope the Scissor Sisters go mega-platinum with this new CD,despite the fact that Fye cannot handle a little truth right between the eyes.

trebor | 10/18/2006, 2:28 am EST

One more thing for those in the Detroit area:LONG LIVE HARMONY HOUSE!!!!!!

trebor | 10/18/2006, 9:44 am EST

Note to lettie: Tower is dead long live Tower records!!!!!

capitalism? | 10/18/2006, 1:51 pm EST

so let me get this straight… if Jake had decided the buy the album (for 20$) then, as he was paying at the cash register, he would have found out that the CD is a more justifiable 14 bucks.

pdog | 10/18/2006, 2:57 pm EST

FYE is a mega rip-off! everything they cary is over priced. F- Yeah its Expensive!

John | 11/25/2006, 6:49 am EST

I shot them at Bestival Festival on the Isle of Whight, England. The were great and closed the festival on a realy positive vibe. Here are my shots http://www.picturise.com

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