God damn I hate this

Most Kiss fans I know have more or less been as anxious for the Destroyer Resurrected as to the release of Monster later in the year. And after the date of release had become official the build up had been a pretty for the release. It felt like the Kiss and Universal ‘press machine’ were working as It should. Sites like the Kiss Faq even followed up with a great interview with Bob Ezrin etc.

But then something happened. If It’s because somebody pushed a button they should not have done or what I’m not really sure of. Kiss Destroyer Resurrected was suddenly released as a US only release on iTunes. Over three weeks before the release date. WTF is that all about? In a world that where It’s more and more difficult to sell your music. Do you really want to piss off most of your buyers? Nice enough for the American fans who doesn’t want to buy physical media anymore. But what about those who do? And last but not least. What about all the people around the world who doesn’t have access to the US iTunes?

I have never seen such a blatant way of pissing you’re money away. I could have understood It if the business plan was to release It worldwide first on iTunes so they got some downloads before the CD and LP was released. But what they managed to do is to create probably the most pirated Kiss album online. Did they really think the fans with US iTunes accounts would not share It with non US fans?

What It all has ended up with is that all the Kiss fans I know about has a copy of the files for the album without paying anything for It. I wonder if that really was the idea? They should have known that most fans are craving new stuff so much that they would not be willing to sit and wait for weeks when the stuff was ‘out there’.

I really don’t understand what they were thinking…