Alice Cooper Says Welcome To My Thrift Shop; Shock Rock Creator Not Selling Chickens

Alice Cooper, the singer who created Shock Rock when he threw a chicken that he thought could fly into an audience at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert which also featured John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, is selling his old clothes. Last week, the "School's Out" singer announced opened a thrift store in Arizona. Alice's Attic will feature items from Cooper's personal collection.

In making the announcement, Cooper said "I have always been a thrift-store guy. I'm a flea market guy. I love going to flea markets and thrift stores. I'm a shopaholic. When I'm on tour, I come home with 10 suitcases full of clothes. So I just go through and say, 'OK, store, store, store, store.' A lot of good labels. Everything that's mine was worn."

A portion of the proceeds from the store will go to Rock Teen Center, a benefit that Alice started that is located across the street from Alice's Attic.

Cooper explained "Eventually what I'd like to do is since we teach music and art and everything, we should also teach retail. We should teach them (kids) to run a cash register because a lot of kids that aren't musically inclined, it's another way of training them. It's sort of, like, anything you can do to get them away from the street life. Because the street life, there's only two endings for that. In jail or dead. Anytime you can give a vocation to a kid, that's what you do."

Alice Cooper also revealed the tracklist for "Raise The Dead - Live From Wacken," a concert package that will hit stores on October 21 in North America, Oct. 17 in Germany and Oct. 20 in the U.K..

"Raise The Dead - Live From Wacken" was recorded live on August 3, 2013 at Wacken Open Air, an annual summer open air heavy metal festival feted by the village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

Alice was one of the first artists to participate and support the Wacken Foundation.

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