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ASIDE from being former members of KISS, drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Vinnie Vincent would not appear to have much in common.
But over the weekend they both copped it
for the prices they were charging for new music. To download the Catman’s self-titled album, the cost on Bandcamp was A$1495 while ‘Ankh Warrior’ Vincent is charging AUD 450 to send you a CD single of a new song.
Well, the similarities between the two end there once more because Criss has profusely apologised while Vincent has doubled down.
Criss writes: “Bandcamp had become an issue and I had requested Flatiron Recordings to disable the account associated with my records before the release day of my new record on December 19, 2025.
“I am not in control of the Bandcamp account. Flatiron Recordings is. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and for the misinformation and implication that I am charging $1,000 for a download of my new record – I am not.
“Please contact Flatiron Recordings with any purchase questions. Please find another outlet to purchase my New Peter Criss rock record. There is a Linktree on my website www.petercriss.net of outlets to purchase my new record.”
But responding to complaints on Facebook about the cost of “Ride The Serpent” – an in particular a polite fan who raised the economy and acknowledged the former Vincent Cusano might need the money – Vincent wrote: “First of all, consider the analogy to caviar or fine art.
“Not everyone can afford it. That simple. Second, I resent your ‘personal life’s needs … prices alleviate my burdens’ insult. Who the fuck are you to assume such a theory because you can’t afford or don’t want to pay or don’t agree with my price? … Oh but you expect a fair market price of 18.99.
“First of all, consider the analogy to caviar or fine art,” he said. “Not everyone can afford it. That simple. Second, I resent your ‘personal life’s needs … prices alleviate my burdens’ insult. Who the fuck are you to assume such a theory because you can’t afford or don’t want to pay or don’t agree with my price? … Oh but you expect a fair market price of 18.99.”
Vincent said artists had become “victims of massive ripoffs, reduced to beg and pander for likes and subscribes from self-entitled brats who want their work for free or for next to nothing.
“Yet these are the same whiners who have no problem paying someone $500 for a brick from a house he demolished or $1,000 for a sweaty pair of used socks. But you bitches cry and whine like fucking babies when VV sells something at a price you don’t like.
“Grow the fuck up! My price protects me from people like ‘you’ who will buy cheap from the theft of bootleggers.”
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