The Raconteurs’ Plans For A Sneak Attack Were Foiled By Retail
Poor Jack White. He wanted the latest album by the Raconteurs, Consolers Of The Lonely, to hit stores around the world today with no advance warning (and, presumably, no advance availablity), but his plans were foiled by the archaic structures of the world’s traditional music-retail outlets, which needed advance notice of the album in order to, um, actually have it on their shelves. “We had to tell more and more shops – that’s why it was announced a week ahead,” Ben Beadsworth of XL Recordings told the NME, and presumably he and the band figured that those shopkeepers were lousy at keeping secrets from their not-as-in-the-know customers and other riff-raff. If only those Santas in the picture were real, right? [NME]
