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Smashing EPs

Well, guess what I just saw? No, not a hot naked chick waving at me from the window across the street. How awesome would that be? Not nearly as cool, but if you get a hard-on for 90’s alternative music, and a “band” who is struggling to prove they’re legit, you’re in for a treat.

The Smashing Pumpkins have completed their second EP (out of eleven), Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol. II: The Solstice Bare, comprising of songs they release for free on the internet every few weeks or months. The 11 volumes will eventually form the 44 track Teargarden by Kaleidyscope (Hi, Captain Obvious speaking).

Their business model is as follows: you release songs for free, and each time you collect four, you rearrange the order of them, slap them on CD, charge them at full album price, and sell them. Genius. Each EP is does come in with a pretty unique and nice package, and is limited. You can download the songs and see details on EPs on their website, and you can make the jump to see what they look like in physical form.

Billy Corgan likes being difficult

Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins thinks he’s a Playstation game. Otherwise, why would he take being ‘difficult’ as a compliment?

“The concept of being difficult… if it means, ‘Hey, you don’t fit in this nice little box like the Nicklebacks and Linkin Parks of the world,’ then call me difficult; that’s a good difficult. If I’m considered difficult because I don’t wanna fit in, I’m OK with that. If I’m difficult because I’ve been difficult, I’m willing to say, ‘Yeah, I have been difficult,’ and I’ve oftentimes apologized to people.“

Listen to interview after the jump.

Holy jumping Jesus Christ, what on earth is he talking about? Did he lose a bet where he had to say the word difficult a million times in a sentence? Cause it’s difficult for me to understand why it’s difficult for him to say he’s difficult without justifying being difficult while being all the more difficult to interview, in this difficult world filled with difficult problems and difficult people. I win.