A Brooklyn-based indie rock band, Kids Against Combs, just finished an album that used the private phone number of Fox News' Sean Hannity as its title.

Sean Hannity (631) 673-8003 was set to be released on July 21 by 10-34 Records. But, according to a press release sent out last week by the band, Kids Against Combs were issued papers on July 15 from Hannity’s attorneys, "threatening to sue both parties if they proceeded with releasing an album named after Hannity’s home phone number and containing the political pundit’s home address in the CD’s liner notes." (The digits, meanwhile, are now disconnected; "changed to an unlisted number," says the recording.)

The band also alleges that spies from the Hannity camp — or at least some people who "looked extremely conservative Republican" and "not the type of folk that would be at any sort of live performance, except for maybe Paul Anka or Wayne Newton" — arrived to scope out a KAC performance the next day. Luckily, the band had freshly printed copies of the album for sale, sans home address and retitled The Album Formerly Known As Sean Hannity’s Phone Number ... Currently Sean Hannity Is a Democracy Subverting Douche Bag.

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Posted by Lawren at August 11, 2005 08:12 AM | Trackbacks (0)

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Not as original as the Sonic Youth song (what was the title? something like "I Hit Robert Christgau with My Big F%cking Dick, and It Don't Work No More" or something like that)

Says: Chrees at August 11, 2005 12:08 PM

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