Excitable boys and girls flooded Radiohead.com on Sunday night and all through the day on Monday with orders for the new album, thanks of course to the revolutionary “name your own price” pre-sale of In Rainbows. That led Jonny Greenwood to post a message on the band’s website apologizing for the inconvenience. Excuse me? Can you imagine a major label ever apologizing for anything? This is no slight on the group’s awesome music, but we now like Radiohead: The Businessmen more than Radiohead: The Band.

We skimmed through the other 10,000 Radiohead posts on the blogoweb to bring you a whole batch of links that have nothing to do with that band:

• The first of 26,000 people sued by the recording industry goes to trial
• It looks like the Disco Biscuits will be playing at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on December 28th and 29th [via Amsh Misfit]
• Animal Collective has been accused of corrupting our nation’s youth
• The Dropkick Murphy’s closed down the Avalon in Boston on Sunday night with a fitting triple encore (last song ever: Pipebomb on Lansdowne)
• Mick Jagger dismisses speculation that the Stones are done touring
• The Maryland Terrapins backup quarterback is the son of a Ratt
• Both Ozomatli and the Meat Puppets added dates to their fall tours
• Someone’s actually calling bullshit on audiophiles [via Quinn]
• The Police received an award from the French government in Paris on Monday for their “contribution to the arts”
• IGN has a track by track breakdown of the tunes on Guitar Hero III
• Blues Traveler is releasing a greatest hits album with a twist
• Greg Kot talks with the suddenly enormous Tokyo Police Club about their quick rise to indie-rock success

Lastly, some 10/31 news from Camp McGee: Umphrey’s announced it plans to transform the Fillmore in Denver into the “Terror-Torium,” paying tribute to Halloween and horror movies; they ask you join in the celebration by dressing as your favorite horror movie character. Definitely awesome shit.

After 11 years the Kirkwood brothers have once again reunited, and they’ve released a new Meat Puppets album entitled Rise to Your Knees. Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette does a fine job profiling the Meat Puppets rise and fall: The piece includes a wide-ranging interview with Curt Kirkwood. Kirkwood discusses opening for Phish and Blues Traveler as the Meat Puppets prepare to play moe.down in Turin, NY next weekend. But what else is goin’ on? Let’s take a look…

• Will Sunday’s show in London be the last Rolling Stones concert ever?
• Eddie Vedder will perform at the world premiere of the Body of War documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11
• Thievery Corporation, Spoon and Modest Mouse are headlining the inaugural outing of the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco Bay
• Broken Social Scene has been added to the lineup of Sunday’s Revenge of the Book Eaters concert at the Beacon Theater
• Jenny Lewis and Neko Case are two redheads taking the alt-rock scene by storm
• Dickie Betts and Great Southern impressed during a recent gig in Buffalo
• Cold War Kids are playing a tour that will hit all of the major cities in November and December
• In a sure sign of things to come, Comcast has started sabotaging their user’s bit torrent connections
• Slash lists his five favorite guitar solos
• Lefsetz feels the same way about The Eagles’ new album as I do
• Wilco’s Nels Cline discusses the adult chicken pox that took him out of action for a while
• The songlist for the Rock Band video game is growing larger and larger
• Paul McCartney is releasing a 3 DVD set filled with concert footage and music videos from his solo career on November 13th
• Morrissey refused a $75 million offer to reunite The Smiths

What else ya got for us on this glorious Friday? Fill us in below…