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Morrissey: "Don't touch my back catalogue"
All becomes a little clearer when the former Smith's gladdie-waver explains that the material in question are two box sets of reissues for which he'll receive no royalties.
Morrissey told website true-to-you.net that he wouldn't receive any money from the reissues and that he was not asked for approval for their release, and asks fans “not to bother buying them.”
The offending items are The 7" Singles 88-91 and The HMV/Parlophone Singles 91-95. Both sets offer reproduction 7" vinyl singles from Morrissey’s career, complete with all the B sides and original packaging.
Faithful fans will be able to ignore them completely when they hit the shops on October 12th and November 2nd.
Source: NME.com 
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Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an...
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