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From The Dirt Miami "Fresh on the heels of reading in Rollingstone that Scissor Sister's lead singer Jack Shears told off FYE at a recent National Association of Recording Merchandisers convention for pricing CD's too high at $20 bucks a pop, what do we see? That our beloved Specs of...

By Chuck Strouse

October 13, 2006

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From The Dirt Miami

"Fresh on the heels of reading in Rollingstone that Scissor Sister's lead singer Jack Shears told off FYE at a recent National Association of Recording Merchandisers convention for pricing CD's too high at $20 bucks a pop, what do we see? That our beloved Specs of 5th and Collins has been transformed into a big bad FYE! We're sad, we loved us that Specs."

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Chuck Strouse is the former editor in chief of Miami New Times. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes and won dozens of other awards. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and has worked at newspapers including the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

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