A Note from Flansburgh

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A Note from Flansburgh

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I got this in the TMBG newsletter and thought it was funny/interesting.

In an idle moment I thought "What exactly were the albums Sony sent out with that virus-loving spyware encoded in them?" One short Google search later, I found a list of the couple of dozen releases. I know the bands weren't aware of the spyware, but looking at the titles I couldn't help but notice a ominous theme running through a third of the album titles -

The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)

Creepy, right?
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dammit OLP, name your next album something like "Squeaky Clean Butterflies"! :cuss:
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"Our Lady Peace - Spyware-Free in Freaky Times"
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:lol: That is pretty strange.
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