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Stars' Torquil Campbell Vs. Ben Folds: FITE!

Feb 17, 2009, 4:35pm

Wow. Somebody really needs to buy Stars frontman Torquil Campbell a punching bag or a Bop It or something. Because otherwise the glammed -out Canadian indie pop singer will keep venting his rage via MySpace posts, and nobody needs that. First he let loose a classic now-deleted MySpace rant against my esteemed Pitchfork News colleague Ryan Dombal ("Ryan Numballs ," if you're Campbell) after Dombal had the audacity [...]

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