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UPDATE: Lollapalooza 2008 full lineup leaked

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Perry Farrell could hardly wait to unveil the lineup he had assembled for Lollapalooza 2008… but, then again, he sort of wishes it didn’t get leaked, either.

“My initial reaction? Well… this guy, he’s a stinker, so it was kind of like having a skunk at the party. So what do we do? Well, I think we should make him the stinky mascot. ... That’s what I’m going to do. ... Pepe LePew,” he hissed. “It doesn’t bother me that much. Why? Because I’m really proud of the lineup. It’s like saying, ‘He just leaked some good news about you!’ So what? [We’ll just make him] the evil mascot, man. I’m telling you, we’ve got to just embrace him. Embrace the darkness.”

“This year, we have an amazing concept going. For the first time ever, we’re going to be working with iTunes, and we’re going to be creating unique content, so we’re going to have collaborations — people collaborating on songs — and then put them on iTunes, and then they’ll perform them at Lollapalooza for a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” he said. “These will be recorded in a studio, but of course because we can share files online, we don’t have to be in the same place at the same time — we have finishing studios all over the world for the artists to finish the piece off. We’ll start to talk with Radiohead about putting them with someone they’d like to collaborate with, tell them how it’s going to go down.”