“Vertigo” might be rushed to press by theft
July 22nd, 2004
“If it is on the internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month,” he told the paper. “It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention fucking up our holidays. But once it’s out, it’s out.”
—Bono, to the Telegraph (as rehashed by Wired’s Cult Of Mac, about the theft of an early copy of their new studio album “Vertigo”