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Ten years ago this month—Nov. 3, 1998, to be exact—Jive Records released Britney Spears' debut single "Baby One More Time" (b/w "Autumn Goodbye") in CD and 12-inch vinyl configurations. Metal Mike Saunders—the most entertaining teen-pop critic of this decade if not human history, not to mention a Certified Public Accountant, not to mention the former singer of L.A.'s greatest early '80s punk band the Angry Samoans—had already purchased his copy of the song on promo cassingle two months earlier. The album came out in January 1999, and by March (as is clear in this 5,000-word Village [...]