Weezer's new video...

For those of you who've had the opportunity to catch the new Weezer video, Hash Pipe, on MTV you may have noticed that it's censored (H**h Pipe). Much Music airs the video uncensored but, unfortunately, a lot of us out there don't get Much Music on our TVs.

Getting to the point, Nothing Videos has also posted a rip of the video in .mpg format. It's about 30 megs and if the download site is down you can try to leech it from the channel #nothingvideos on EFNet (via an IRC client).

What does the US have against the word "Hash" anyways... its ok to have a song about Eminem killing his pregnant girlfriend but Weezer saying "Hash" is too much? I've heard 103.3 in Buffalo calling it "Half Pipe"... Dumbass censorship laws... Click READ MORE for a post about this very subject by Karl (Weezer's web/press guy)...

Karl: …well Hash Pipe premeired on MTV tonight, and many of you let me know what you thought: "…'H*** Pipe'!? What the hell was that?! Ok.. why is it MTV has to be [stupid] about it and Much Music plays the real thing without debate?! You should make a letter campaign to MTV to get them to play the real version and stop cutting it into pieces! Anyways.. saw the real one on MUCH, and it kicks booty!"….."I just want to inform you that I'm in love with the video, and what could be better than sumo wrestlers/backup singers."……"let me get this straight. It's alright to have close-ups of Sumo wrestler ass, but you can't say the word hash?"…….."The Weezer video was awesome, all the slow motion of extra large men jumping around, haha. But I cant believe MTV had the nerve to call it "H*** Pipe"!!! Goodness, well it was great except for that and when everytime hash pipe was supposed to be spoken, it wasnt."….. "Who woulda thought, Sumos and Weezer. . . makes no sense. I describe it as the anti-video, and think it was a perfect way to expose Weezer, without over exposing themselves. Genius, disturbing, and crude. . . I applaud you all. Kudos."