NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS CD HAS PHOTOS OF PARIS HILTON

This is a new low for Billy Corgan. Including pictures of Paris Hilton in your CD artwork to generate buzz and create a media story? LAME! Launch Radio Networks reports [via Blabbermouth]:

“The new Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist, features Paris Hilton in a series of photographs in the CD booklet, taken by Pumpkins’ leader Billy Corgan himself. Hilton’s face also adorns the cover of the band’s U.K. single for the song “Tarantula”. Corgan explained how he got the notorious party girl and ex-con to pose for him. “Actually the original idea was we were gonna see if Lindsey, Britney and Paris would all shoot,” he said. “But ultimately we decided that that was probably gonna be too prohibitive ’cause then you would get into, like, those girls fighting amongst each other. Paris I knew personally, and hung out with her a few times, and so I asked her. I said, ‘Would you be willing to do this?’And God bless her, she came, she showed up at 10:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning, sat in the chair, got made up and shot her. So anybody who thinks that those aren’t real photos, those are real. We took those photos.”

LAME. LAME LAME LAME. Eat a dick.

-VN