Order Now: using infomercials to sell CDs

This is the ad for the new* album by Weezer, the US rock group. I guess this is one way of selling CDs in the age of MP3s and rampant piracy - bundle your album with a blanket:

I don’t know if this ad is actually being broadcast, or if it’s just a clever YouTube-only thing. Watching the Weezer ad, though, reminded me of the infomercials the Beastie Boys did for their album, Hello Nasty, back in the late 1990s. Apparently these were actually broadcast on US television:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

* New to me… it says 2009 on the info.