Pitchfork

Why, Billy, why? Just when some people we know made up had finally finished paying off the credit card interest after buying FOUR different versions of Smashing Pumpkins' Zeitgeist-- which, let's face it, is no Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness-- at FOUR different retailers, you go and plop another one on us.

Zeitgeist: The Umpteenth Unnecessary Edition or whatever drops at Best Buy locations and only Best Buy locations October 30 (aka tomorrow). It seems indie retailers (not to mention fans) can suck it once again.

Why, when you already have the regular edition, the Target edition, the iTunes edition, and the original Best Buy edition, might you actually consider possibly wanting this artifact too? Well, it has a few bonus tracks-- one from the first Best Buy Zeitgeist ("Death From Above"), one from the iTunes Zeitgeist ("Stellar"), and one that appears nowhere else ("Ma Belle"). It also comes with a DVD sporting the full-length documentary Inside the Zeitgeist. And, um, somebody put the cover art in Photoshop and desaturated it. (They're calling this a "metallic silver color scheme"; it's a "scheme" all right.)

Well, at least they got one thing right. Excess is very much in the spirit of the times.

$mashing Pumpkin$:

10-30 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theater *
10-31 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theater *
11-02 Austin, TX - The Backyard
11-03 Dallas, TX - Nokia Theater
11-05 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium *
11-07 Athens, GA - Classic Center Theater *
11-08 Greensboro, NC - War Memorial Auditorium *
11-09 Columbia, SC - Township Auditorium *

* with Explosions in the Sky