Former Kiss Guitarist Vinnie Vincent Defends High Price for New Single

If standing on business were a story of the day, it’d be this one. Vinnie Vincent, who used to be the guitarist in Kiss, has released a new single to controversy. The drama isn’t with the single itself per se, but with how much Vinnie V is charging for it.

The song is question is called “Ride the Serpent,” which is allegedly from an upcoming album from his Vinnie Vincent Invasion, called Judgement Day Guitarmageddon. NGL, that’s a good name, and would be the band’s first since 1996. What he’s charging for that song on the band’s website though is $225. Included in that price is a one-track CD single in a plain envelope, as well as the shipping cost. It does, however, come signed by Vincent.

He doesn’t see a problem in this, and he quite literally is standing on business with this decision.

“If the fan support is there, this is what to expect the price will be for these private recording collection pieces,” says Vincent. “There is a bank vault of recordings I have been preparing for release. The time is almost here.

“I understand the bitching, the moaning, the whining about price, but you must also understand that my situation is such that my music is so desired that it will be targeted and taken from me immediately, which I cannot/will not allow.”

When a fan understandably spoke up in curiosity about the pricing, Vinnie clapped the fuck back and read them to low-key filth, as you’ll see below…

“Welcome to the new agenda. Artists can and will set their own standards and rules for the purchase price of their art, that’s if there are any or many artists of value left aside from the standard list. We are nearing 2030. Inflation through the roof. Homeless, etc. The horror list is endless. It’s a Mad Max wasteland, the Wild West for artists now who have no protection from shoplifter fans who download their music for free.

“They are victims of Massive rip-offs, 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 a lip-syncher $500 for a brick from a house he demolished or $1000 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 who steal from me. If you don’t like what I do, what I look like, what I say, what I sell, or anything and or everything about me, don’t come here. If you like what I do, then support the artist. You bitch because it’s one song? This one song is worth more than most entire albums. Consider yourself lucky that it’s only 200, and that it’s autographed yet. It was originally 300, but with the economy suffering as it is, I made it 200. If you don’t like it… That’s your problem, not mine.

“Don’t tread on my world and the good vibes of this fan site. There are plenty of other sites where emotionally disturbed trolls can try and disrupt.”

Yes, charge what you want for your art. I support that. But, damn Vinnie. We broke out here!

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