According to a post on
the Smashing Pumpkins' official site, "plans are currently underway that will lead to the eventual release of a pre-
Gish/
Gish box set." While I welcome any excuse to replace my scratched-to-hell disc from 17 years ago, I'm guessing that Billy Corgan's motivations are a little more devious; delving into his back catalogue will probably produce sales results that are, at the very least, better than those achieved by
Zeitgeist. (Although if he remakes any of the videos with certain
brain-dead heiresses playing the role of James Iha, I am
out.) But wait, there's another way for Corgan to get the money out of his band's
Gish-era fanbase, who presumably on average have higher earning power than they did back in '91:
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Surely I'm not the only one who thinks that, at this point, the whole "band releasing a new song through Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band" angle is kind of played out, even if other media outlets are willing to lap it up like it's a dish of slightly melted vanilla ice cream. I mean, the seal has been broken. People are going plastic instead of going platinum. Big whoop. If you really want to get creative with your distribution methods, why don't you go back to the wax-cylinder route? Or 8-tracks? Plastic guitars are almost... quaint at this point. Now, that's not to say that I'm not interested in the newest song by the Smashing Pumpkins, which comes out next month in a bundle with "1979" and "The Everlasting Gaze." (You know—it's what us olds used to call a "b-side.") It's called "G.L.O.W.," after all, and anyone who had a TV that pulled in crappy syndicated channels 20 years ago knows that those letters can only stand for one thing.
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Holy shit. We don't know how we missed this, but 
