A-Infos (en) Virgin Stores Pull Chumbawamba's Tubthumping From Shelves - resent for technicals

[Ilan Shalif <gshalif@netvision.net.il>]

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From: Luther Gaylord <butch@iww.org>

> Twelve Virgin Megastores have taken Chumbawamba's Tubthumper off
shelves
> and put it behind the counter after singer Alice Nutter said she
> believed it was just "fine" for poor people to shoplift coveted
records
> from chains. Nutter, one of the nine members of the self-dubbed
> "anarchist collective," appeared on ABC's Politically Incorrect With

> Bill Maher on Tuesday, repeating the shoplifting advice her band has

> often given in interviews.


CHUMBAWAMBA EXPLAINS POLITICALLY INCORRECT 'STEALING' FIASCO

After Chumbawamba member Alice Nutter commented on Politically
Incorrect
on Tuesday (Jan. 20) that it was okay to steal their album, which
resulted
in Virgin Megastores pulling the band's Tubthumping album from its
shelves
to a position behind the counter, the band has now issued a statement
to
explain.

"Two years ago, a question landed at the band's Web site asking how
Chumbawamba would feel if someone stole their albums from a record
show,"
says the statement. "Chumbawamba's response was 'fine' since it was
the
decision of the person taking the risk. But Chumbawamba also pointed
out
that if the letter writer was going to steal an album, surely it was
better to steal from a retail outlet which could afford the losses, as

opposed to a mom-and-pop store which couldn't. The band then went on
to
write a huge list of places the writer might consider stealing from.
The
answer was tongue-in-cheek, but Chumbawamba don't mind if the media
chose
not to interpret it that way."

The band then goes on to say that during Politically Incorrect, the
panel
tried to "goad" Nutter into saying that she encouraged people to steal

records, when Nutter wanted to talk about the "divide between the
haves
and the have-nots" and why "shoplifting is a sign that we live in an
unequal society."

"I wouldn't tell people to go out and nick our album," says Nutter,
"not
because I have any problems with the morality of it, but because I'm
not
the one who would have to bail them out if they got caught."

In addition, it was actually host Bill Maher who mentioned Virgin
Megastores specifically and not Nutter.

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>From the "Rocktropolis allstar daily music news" 26 January 1998




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