Oh, this is rich. Earlier today, Universal Music UK received an advance shipment of an album being released in exactly two weeks, on March 9. The discs, reportedly hundreds of them, sported the correct art, but contained the wrong music. The ‘right’ recording artist is 13-year-old Faryl Smith, who took third place in the 2008 edition of the Britain’s Got Talent TV show. The ‘wrong’ artist—very, very wrong—is The Fall, a cult band near and dear to this journalist, led by crotchety 51-year-old Mark E Smith.
You can probably see not only where this is going, but also how it got there. Still, you’ll find some ridiculously casual maths, not to mention a Smith vs Smith photo comparison, after the fold.
