Nineties rockers Smashing Pumpkins have been planning to make a comeback this year by releasing Zeitgeist, the group’s first album in nearly seven years, coupled with a world tour starting later this month. (Admittedly, it sounds like a more plausible plan than anything Britney Spears has come up with.) However their plans hit a snag last week when the band’s rehearsal space in Chicago was burglarized. The suspects—now under arrest—stole various items, including the original artwork for the upcoming album. Unfortunate, yes? Not so fast:

Internet rumours suggest that the subjects of the pictures are as follows: two elderly men flanking the Grim Reaper at a presidential podium with the Smashing Pumpkins flag as a backdrop, Paris Hilton standing in front of a photo of an exploding bomb, schoolchildren giving a Nazi-esque salute and the devil being crucified.

On the whole, it sounds like the thieves did the Pumpkins and their remaining fans a favor. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the perps were hired by Billy Corgan.

(Via Fark.)