Looking Back On A Week In Which A Little-Known British Rock Band Made A Small Announcement

• U.K. grunge band is trying to unload its unwanted new album on the Internet. Who cares, right?
• And a few days after that whoop-de-do announcement, some brave journalist finally got down to the most important thing in all this quote-unquote industry-changing news: a lot of painful friggin’ puns.
• Britney! The mentally infirm still bring the hits.
• The RIAA hits the $220k Pyramid jackpot at trial of alleged downloader. Even after the conviction we’re sticking to “alleged,” if only out of anti-RIAA solidarity.
• Ticketmaster’s verification software is actually programmed by 14-year-old boys.
• Kid Rock’s ugly mug harshes our pictorial mellow.
• A brief clip of new music by same old Eminem surfaced to quell those “Eminem has finally made a decent new record” rumors.
• Speaking of rumors: Ian MacKaye is not pushing up daisies.
• We had a few more opportunities to post the Megabugs photo.
• SNL‘s Andy Samberg: Not just cutesy and obnoxious, but also a damn pirate.
• We tried (and failed, presumably) to get on VH1′s new dating show.
• And we laced up our skates and took to the ice with fake Zac Efron and fake Vanessa Hudgens.