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# U2 Readies Response To Stolen CD Master
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/u2_readies_resp/
- Published: 2004-07-26T05:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2004-07-26T05:45:00.000Z
- Description: FROM WIRED.COM Irish rock band U2 told the London Daily Telegraph that, should an unfinished advance copy of its new album that was stolen during a photo shoot in France. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2004/07/u2_readies_resp.html]
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**FROM WIRED.COM Irish rock band U2 told the London Daily Telegraph that, should an unfinished advance copy of its new album that was stolen during a photo shoot in France turn up on the Internet, it plans to immediately release the finished version on iTunes and get it into stores within a week. The record is not due for official release until November. “If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month,” U2 singer Bono told the paper. “It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention fucking up our holidays. But once it’s out, it’s out.”*

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