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As much as I like Starbucks and Alanis,

this isn’t cool:

On June 13, 10 years to the day Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill came out—the second biggest album ever by a female artist—the java corporation will begin peddling a new acoustic version of the 16-times platinum CD. Hear Music is banking on Jagged being its bestseller since Ray Charles’s spectacularly successful Genius Loves Company. The coffee establishment even worked out an exclusive if controversial deal with Morissette’s label, Maverick Records, to carry it for six weeks before it’s available in other stores.

“Your Alanis plan is not very cool,” the president of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, Don VanCleave, wrote in a vitriolic open letter to Starbucks.

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  1. vitrolic is pretty bad.

  2. hear music is at it again! my friend aaron and i started hear records over a year before hear music came out and guess which corporate hacks got to keep the name? yup…

    nstrykerMay 31, 2005 @ 9:58 pm



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