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Here’s one of the (many) things I don’t understand about Pitchfork. As you saw from Frazer’s post below, the wild wild internet experienced a bit of a false start this morning when an alleged leaked track from Radiohead’s new album surfaced on a random MySpace fan page. To everyone’s dismay, it was later revealed that the track was actually just a very high-quality live recording, not the first look at what might be the most highly anticipated new album of the year.

As lovers of Radiohead, we at RTP freaked out as one might expect and covered the apparent leak immediately. Once we found out we were wrong, though, we posted an update, as has become common practice in the blogging community. Go ahead, take a look at it in the post before this one.

Pitchfork, however, chose to yank their old, incorrect posting, and completely rewrite their story instead. How come? Is it that, commensurate with their sometimes (read: often) supercilious musical opinions, they have to be correct about everything?

I won’t conjecture on the answer to this for fear that I might have to delete this post and rewrite it if and when I’m proven wrong, but I will leave you with a link to their original post in case you missed it, at least until they delete the page completely so there’s absolutely no evidence of their infallibility.

Update (see how easy that is?): The aforementioned link is officially gone. Now it’s like it never even happened. Congratulations, Pitchfork. Your all-knowing track record of god-like musical perfection remains intact. Or does it? Unfortunately for you and your lovable pet ego, Frazer had the foresight to grab a screenshot:

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