The Web Sheriff, the Internet-music corps employed by the likes of Jack White and Prince, dropped by Idolator this morning to thank us for “plugging” the Raconteurs record, i.e. “mentioning it in a crabby post about a critic who’s already overrating it.” Which I guess means either that they’re so bored in the post-Oink era that they’ve taken to clumsily marketing the albums they protect or that they’re very, very irony-challenged, to the point where one wonders if they aren’t staffed by a series of bots who happen to think that Web site comment sections require the rigorous formatting of a business letter. [Earlier]