NME.com’s sassy “artist-recognition” advertising deal with Ebay has some unfortunate side effects – as they announce the sad news that the new U2 album has been leaked online a whole two weeks before the release date, the Ebay link at the bottom of the page happily directs the NME reading fan to the sale of several U2 bootleg CD releases they might like to purchase as they wait on Kazaa for their download of the new album to complete.

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