One of the Stranger FOB Things to Happen in a While

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Yesterday, the band released their video for “I Don’t Care” via iTunes. I’m not sure why, considering it’s hard enough to get people to buy music at this point in time — I know I’m not at a place where I am going to start paying for videos, especially since they have been free my whole life [excluding the price of MTV/Fuse before they were a reality tv and movie channel, respectively.]

Anyway, one one of Pete’s 1,000 blogs, ahomeboyslife, this post turned up last night:

this will probably end up deleted either by me or someone else but the version of the video that we worked on night after night is not the version that aired. yet somehow a cut full of glorious camera phone shots did. just to let you know. it doesnt make any sense to us. that bag of money is being donated straight to a cause far more worthy.

imagine seeing this edit only after you buy the video off of i-tunes and realizing that noone even had the balls to call you and tell you they were changing the video and cutting parts.

id recommend viewing the video on a site that it doesnt cost you any money as this is NOT the edit the band approved.
sorry to let you down.

Well, that’s a new one.

Glad I did just that on my own [like I said, videos aren’t something that have ever cost money in my lifetime.] The video isn’t bad, and I didn’t notice all this product placement, but hey….

And as it turns out, the blog is gone today — replaced with:

Lucky for us [I suppose] and sucky for people who want things to go away at some point [either Pete or the powers-that-be] nothing ever disappears from the Internet. Ever. Especially if it involves famous people or controversial things or politicians.

Of course, with all the wacky “viral” stuff concerning the band now [I’m somewhat less interested now that I have heard the first song [it is vaguely growing on me, maybe I have a brain slug] and it’s more of the Fresh Only Bakery stuff than the Citizens for our Betterment stuff] this could just be another aspect of whatever the hell they’re doing over there — they have been known to put messages in cell phones in videos [see The Academy Is…] and maybe there’s some code in there somewhere.

I’ll get back to you on that if I discover anything. Because this is the sort of thing I do these days.

By the way, this is the video — I think this is the one they wanted, but still — save your money on videos: