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CTV News Toronto: HMV protest Alanis Morissette

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Date: Fri. Jun. 10 2005 11:34 PM ET

Come Monday, Alanis Morissette fans won't be able to find her music on the shelves of Canada's largest music retailer.

That's the day the Ottawa-born rocker's latest album is being released, but HMV won't be selling it, or anything else from her back catalogue.

The move, HMV says, is a protest against a deal struck between coffee giant Starbucks and Morissette's label, Maverick Records. Under the terms of their agreement, Morissette's latest effort -- an acoustic re-release of her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill -- will be sold exclusively at Starbucks.

The deal lasts for six weeks, after which music lovers would be able to find the CD at traditional music retailers.

According to HMV president Humphrey Kadaner, however, that's not good enough.

"As of June 13, HMV will be removing all Alanis products from our stores, consistent with the views of the majority of our customers, and will be returning all Alanis product to the record company,'' he wrote in an e-mail Thursday.

This is not the first time traditional music sellers have gotten upset over en exclusive retail arrangement. Less than two years ago, HMV, Music World and Sunrise Records all pulled Rolling Stones albums from their shelves.

That move was a protest of the aging rockers' deal to sell their Four Flicks DVD through Best Buy and Future Shop.

Freshly-inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, Morissette is now celebrating the 10th anniversary of her breakout album with the new CD and an acoustic tour.

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