- Ozzy Osbourne’s infamous “bat coat,” which he donned on The Osbournes, sold for $3,300 at an auction this weekend that saw the family selling many of its most prized possessions for charity. A coffee mug Ozzy used on the TV show went for $1,625, while a sculpture by Edouard Douret sold for $10,500. Altogether, the Ozzchandise raised more than $800,000 for the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program.
- Radiohead’s “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” video, shown during the band’s Webcast, has officially been released to YouTube. Meanwhile, the discbox option of In Rainbows, featuring eight new songs, has begun hitting mailboxes worldwide. While the band’s merchandiser w.a.s.t.e. e-mailed customers yesterday saying that the box should reach U.S. customers in “five to eighteen days,” those lucky enough to live in Europe (they received theirs today) have leaked its contents on the Web.
- Check out Brian Wilson’s “Smart Girls,” a semi-sorta rap song the Beach Boys brainchild recorded in 1989 with his associate Dr. Eugene Landy playing the role of hype man. The song was released as a limited-edition cassingle (remember those?) as a personal gift to 250 of his friends and associates for the holidays back when the first George Bush was in power.
- While nearly every industry profited this past Black Friday, CD sales still slumped, with the number of albums sold coming in eighteen percent less than the same weekend last year. As a result of the endless beatdown on the record companies, Island/Def Jam and SonyBMG have begun cutting jobs.
- In a merger of truly epic proportions, video game companies Activision and Blizzard — a.k.a. the makers of Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft, respectively — have merged in a $18 billion deal.
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