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Just to show how quickly the end-of-days is coming, the Alvin & the Chipmunks soundtrack was #5 on this past week's Billboard Top 200. More people bought medieval torture than the new Van Morrison, Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones documentary soundtrack, The Raconteurs' latest, Gnarls Barkley, and even waterboarding. Waterboarding!

Also, the soundtrack has gone platinum and also McCain will be the next president and you have a benign brain tumor.

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I thought the pain of knowing a million people bought the album would be lessened by other possible bad news.

My friend said it best, when I told her the soundtrack was #5 on Billboard. First, denial.

"No it wasn't! That's ridiculous!"

Then acceptance: "People with talent are getting beat out [by] people singing in funny voices."

Then profit: "Maybe we should all dress up like adorable animals and then we could make the top of the Billboard charts as well."

Yes. And that's when being a furry goes mainstream.

-RoboNixon