Minimum Wage Workers Blamed For Leaking Album
Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy has recently spoken up about the leak of the highly anticipated album "Infinity On High".
Wentz described the leak as “devastating” and both the label and band are suggesting that it was a low-level pressing plant employee that is at fault.
In his interview with Rolling Stones Magazine he made a few statements that the magazine then turned into "The Five Stages Of Post-Album Leak
Grief".
1. DENIAL
Pete pretends he doesn’t care how the leak will effect chart position:
“It’s gotten to the point where I’m like, who really cares about the first
week (sales)? If people like the music then they like the music. That’s the
best thing about it. There’s been a positive response.”
2. ANGER
Pete lashes out at the working man: “Our job is to put out records and tour
and make music. What are we gonna do? Sit at the plant [he believes the leak
began at the label’s manufacturing plant] and watch everybody? Some guy
working minimum wage, why would he care how it affects us? It’s a
multi-pronged thing.”
3. BARGAINING
Pete begs us to help him weave a silver lining: “If you've downloaded a song-
cause we know a lot of you hxc fob have. please take a moment and pick a friend
and give them their first chance to listen to fall out boy. someone who would
never expect to like it. convince them. you are fall out boy for that 3 minutes
and 52 seconds. keep being our ambassadors. we will keep telling dudes in suits
to chill out.”
4. DEPRESSION
Pete wallows: “Our new record has leaked. While this isn’t the end of the
world it certainly feels pretty terrible. As an artist we have a vision for how
we want our record to be presented and this isn’t it.”
4 1/2. SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
Wentz is an artist and sometimes he invents things, including new stages of
grief. He boasts: “This could potentially be one of the biggest leaks there
is. If you think that every year computers, iPod, internet music grows
exponentially and we’re probably one of the biggest bands in rock music on the
internet.”
5. ACCEPTANCE
This is the last, elusive stage. Will he ever get here?
Panic! Update
Infinity on High
For all those who missed out on the one day only download I
have uploaded the songs here.
1. Thriller
2. The Take Over, The Breaks Over
3. ThisAin't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
4. I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You
Off (Me And You)
6. Golden
8. Don't You Know Who I Think I Am
9. The(After) Life Of The Party
12. Fame (Infamy)
13. You're Crashing But You're No Wave
14. I've Got All This Ringing in My Ears And None On My Fingers
