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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:20 PM
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My biggest problem with Billy Corgan:
He's a dick.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43795-smashing-pumpkins-to-fans-indie-stores-fuck-you

Billy and company would like you to know that they fully support the extinction of the American independent record store at the hand of large, faceless, little-guy-crushing big boxes. They also support bleeding their fans dry. How? By releasing FOUR different versions of Zeitgeist.

Best Buy and Target each get a version with an exclusive bonus track. So does iTunes. Like, a different one for each. Everybody else gets the regular version with no bonus tracks. So if you want all of the bonus tracks, you have to buy an album at Best Buy, an album at Target, and an album at iTunes. (Ooh, the presale iTunes version also comes with an extra set of Smashing Pumpkins covers by the Bravery, the Academy Is..., Panic at the Disco, Test Your Reflex, and +44. Ooh.)

...more at link.

Y'know, I already think his music is bland and his voice is just awful. His obvious musical faults aside, talk about being a money grubbing asshole with releasing multiple versions of the same disc in the US region. Oh and nice touch with having a compilation of your own covers by shitastic bands like Panic at the Disco. I'm glad most of your fans abandoned you. Maybe that crazy bitch, D'Arcy, wasn't so nutty after all.

When can we get this douche to board a rocket ship?
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:22 PM
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1. Being a dick is not exclusive of being a musical genius.
And my friends, it is without dispute that William Patrick Corgan, Junior, born March 17, 1967 in Elk Grove Illinois, is a musical genius. And perhaps a dick, too. But a musical genius.
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:24 PM
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2. Because he makes you weak in the knees?
By that metric, The Jonas Brothers need to be inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame immediately.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:40 PM
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3. 5:29-10:56.
Edited on Tue Mar-03-09 03:40 PM by Tommy_Carcetti
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:42 PM
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4. My problem is he gave the guitarist crap for not being able to play very well...
But the guy can't sing for shit.
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:43 PM
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6. Shhhh...
You'll make Carcetti's head explode.
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:43 PM
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5. Awww.... have you tried calling him up and working things out?
Maybe you could do an interpretive dance about it so you could feel better.
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:44 PM
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8. Please
He never got any of my money. I wouldn't waste the bandwidth stealing it.
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:54 PM
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11. This is a bit off topic, but
were tanngrisnir1 and tanngrisnir2 taken?

ANd just to refresh my memory, tanngrisnir was one of Thor's...goats? Or Rams wasn't it?
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 04:34 PM
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12. The three is a mnemonic device and yes, that was one of his goats
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 04:40 PM
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13. Cool,
I was trying to remember where I'd heard tanngrisnir as soon as I saw your screen name. It took me a few minutes.

The other one is tanjost, or somesuch isn't it?

I know, I cold google, but that feels like cheating right now.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:43 PM
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7. Corgan is such a dicknozzle
He's a tool.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:45 PM
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9. And Mr.Coffee is making a beeline to the Shithead List.
Sad, sad, sad.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-03-09 03:49 PM
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10. hmmm. The first recorded Douche Rocket. Not exactly a Warp-drive moment
but I'll take it
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