KISS: Best Buy Offering Replacement Discs
December 2, 2006KISS' official web site has been updated with the following message:
"Universal Music has manufactured replacement discs for Best Buy customers that purchased the ['Kiss Alive! 1975-2000'] [box] set without the bonus tracks — '2000 Man' and 'God Of Thunder'. The discs will begin shipping direct to Best Buy stores on December 6. Depending on transit times, most Best Buy stores should have the discs by December 9.
"To receive the free replacement disc, bring your receipt into a Best Buy store on or after December 9. If your purchase was made on Bestbuy.com, there will be instructions there as well, next week.
"Best Buy will have plenty of replacement discs after the holidays too, for fans that receive the CD for Christmas.
"Thank you for your patience while this solution was being worked out and implemented."
As previously reported, the "Kiss Alive! 1975 – 2000" box set sold just over 9,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 167 on next week's The Billboard chart.
"Kiss Alive! 1975-2000" comes with the first three "Alive" albums from 1975, 1977, and 1993, as well as the December 31, 1999 Millennium show from Vancouver, British Columbia, which was supposed to be "Alive IV" but was never released.
The first "Alive!" album was a landmark for the band, becoming their first gold record, but singer-bassist Gene Simmons told Launch that their label wasn't in favor of the idea. "We were on our last legs, Casablanca was gonna go belly-up," he said. "We didn't get paid for the album — in fact, when we told the record company we were gonna do a live record, they didn't want to do that, because live records didn't work. In those days, a live album was a liability. You did that after your career was over."
"Kissology", which is the first in a planned multi-volume series, features rare live footage of the band from their early days through the "Alive II" period. It was released on Halloween (October 31) and debuted a week later at No. 1 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos chart.
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