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So here we have "Troublemaker", the third single (and opening track) from Weezer's third album called Weezer. Released without much in the way of warning to iTunes, like, already, the peppily self-aware riff rocker (with telling lyric "I'm gonna be a rock star /And you are gonna bear with mewill go to bed with me") emerges just two weeks before the June 3 U.S. release of the so-called Red Album. Which, of course, means you can already (legally) hear nearly a third of the LP before making the call on whether or not to buy the whole thing.

Some folks whose minds are already made up-- that is, the types who've preordered the disc offa iTunes while the singles roll in, or intend to do so later on-- have cried foul to the Weezer camp about the potential of paying for these advanced tracks now, then having to re-buy them yet again upon the album's release. Fear not, early adopters: according to a MySpace bulletin, Weezer III is "part of [Apple's] 'complete my album' program, which means you won't get charged more than the total album price for an album [from which] you bought a single or more before the release." Whew!

Recall that the deluxe UK edition of the Red Album is due June 9 digitally and June 16 physically on Polydor, make some sense of Rivers' ongoing collaborative sawngwriting contest, note that Weezer have no live dates scheduled at the moment, and go make your trouble elsewhere.