Reformed rockers Smashing Pumpkins have angered their U.S. fans after announcing they are releasing four different versions of their comeback album next month (Jul07). The Billy Corgan-fronted band unveil their first disc in seven years, Zeitgeist, on 17 July.The standard album will come with 12 tracks, but three other versions will be released to American stores, each with a different bonus track. Fans buying Zeitgeist at Best Buy will get extra song Death From Above, those buying the CD in Target will get title track Zeitgeist, while an online purchase at iTunes contains Stellar - upsetting followers who will have to pick up all three versions to own all the songs. The Smashing Pumpkins broke into the mainstream with their album Siamese Dream in 1993. Their 1995 follow up album Mellon Collie te Infinite Sadness sold 18.3 million copies in the U.S alone.But the band split in 2000 after releasing Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music due to drug use adn fighting within the group. As a farewell the group played a gig at The Metro, a Chicargo club, where it had all begun.In 2006 the bands website announced that they had reunited and were working on new material.

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