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More Moz wank, from the increasingly-reliable morrissey-solo boards.

Seems that two songs from the new album were leaked, and were linked and discussed on the boards. As a result, the site owner gets a nasty note from Morrissey's lawyer asking for the links to be removed. The site owner fires back with a "contact my lawyer", posts about the current controversy, and asks that in the meantime, readers should not post links to illegal files.

Cue the ranty.

There's this:

Dear God, you just know what 'JoeMoz' was like at school - 'please Miss, can I clean the board please Miss' and 'Miss, it was Johnny that threw the paper plane, Miss' and 'Miss, I would never post an illegal link Miss, it was those other nasty children'. You can just imagine the little prig being duffed up on the playground and thoroughly deserving it.

And this:

it could have an impact on magazine reviews too' - oh what nonsense. All the music mags and journos have already heard it. All the reviews have been written and in most cases already published. Morrissey's promoters are crap at organising ticket sales for concerts, but I detect a clever head leaking album tracks. Moz is a multi-millionaire, and this will be his biggest selling album ever, so lets not have any of this 'Let's avoid wrecking the event' nonsense, please.

And my personal favorite:

The way Morrissey allowed Sanctuary to exploit and milk loyal fans last time around, I couldn't give two shits if the whole album leaks out.

Frankly, I think they leaked songs on purpose to help hype it anyway.

Sanctuary and the lawyers - they can go fuck themselves! Everyone here's gonna buy the album anyway. Duh.

Who cares about Sanctuary anyway? According to the business pages they're a sinking ship.

Morrissey, if you were so punk rock you wouldn't be angry over this. Hell, you should be tickled that people care enough to leak and download your songs.

Lots of fun to be had, especially if you have strong opinions about filesharing.

Hey, I got to use sparklehorse's Moz icon!