Dear famous people: This is an official message advising you to cease with the specially made-to-order, super-fancy, costs-more-than-my-apartment pets, and hightail it (get it?!) down to an animal shelter.

If you need further proof that this is a wise endeavor, might I introduce… Turkey, the tiniest, cutest little rescue kitty with the most adorable eating sounds this side of Lil Bub. She gobbles when she gobbles! Like a turkey!

Unfortunately for famous people (but fortunately for Turkey), this little bundle of gobbles has already been adopted, but shelters are just replete with heart-melting balls of fur with various and sundry entertaining eccentricities. Find your own Turkey today.

Brenna Ehrlich

Brenna Ehrlich is a reporter for MTV News as well as the senior writer/editor for the O Music Awards. In the past, she served as associate editor at Mashable, penned a netiquette column for CNN and co-authored the blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." She likes trying not to die in moshpits and listening to songs on repeat. Follow her on Twitter @BrennaEhrlich for news on cats and punk bands.

Usually, citizens of the world are all, “Free things are the best!” snatching up beer koozies, keychains and all manner of useless things with almost rabid abandon when given the opportunity.

One free thing, however, was not unanimously met with grins and shouts of “Score!” — and that free thing would be U2‘s new record, Songs Of Innocence, which all iTunes users copped last week after the band premiered a new track at Apple’s product event.

Related: Was U2′s Apple Album Release A Good Idea? We Asked The Experts

Instead of reveling in not having to pay for the new tunes, some users were outraged that the record had infiltrated their iTunes — a state of affairs Apple remedied Monday (September 15) by creating a website that removes the album from one’s cache of tunes.

The site, titled, simply, “SOI Removal” is an extremely sparse affair. After warning users that after deleting the record there is no going back — “if you later decide you want the album, you will need to get it again” — Apple provides us with a button we may click on to effectively banish Bono and Co. from our iPhones and computers.

Tyler, the Creator, for one, must be very pleased.

Brenna Ehrlich

Brenna Ehrlich is a reporter for MTV News as well as the senior writer/editor for the O Music Awards. In the past, she served as associate editor at Mashable, penned ...

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So, Grimes… Word on the street is that you’re scrapping your upcoming record and starting anew. We trust your judgment and everything — and your taste in shower-to-night footwear — but we have to ask: Are you suuuuure? And we’re not just saying that because we want new music so badly it hurts.

The New York Times reported Friday (September 12) that you said that your new music “sucked,” so you “threw it out and started again.” You also told the Grey Lady that your song “Go,” which you initially penned for Rihanna, didn’t rub your fans the right way. “It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them,” you said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.’”

We get it. We get the need to innovate and create work that’s truly indicative of who you are. Your current situation — chilling in LA, making music and hanging with friends — also sounds pretty rad. But, we also have to wonder: Was the entire record worth scraping? Wasn’t there something there you think you might want to save?

So, dear Grimes, before you take out the trash, allow us to direct you to three hit projects that would never happened if the artist in question had given up. In the end, lady, we trust you — “Oblivion” was rad, after all, and you destroyed Pitchfork this year — but, you know… Just read on.

Stephen King literally threw away “Carrie”…

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In the dark era before everyone knew what Pitchfork was and music flowed as sweetly and abundantly as rainwater through the many tributaries of the Web, there were scant few places for weird suburban teens who loved tunes to feel like they belonged. One of the lights in the darkness, undoubtedly, was a little show called “Gilmore Girls,” replete with literary references, copious tunes and more autumnal scenes than one could shake a just-turned-scarlet leaf at.

And, friends, that miraculous show is primed to make a reentrance into the pop-cultural zeitgeist, as come October 1, the whole series will be invading Netflix accounts — and weird, alt-teen hearts — around the globe.

In honor of the early ’00s show’s return to the small and big screen, we’ve complied a list of musical moments that prove just how hipster the ladies of Stars Hollow were — before the word gotten dragged into the mainstream and slapped on everyone wearing a plaid shirt with a predilection for synth-pop.

1.) Rory Totally Discovered The Shins

Before “Garden State” and Zach Braff made The Shins a totally mainstream thing (lives were changed before you existed, oh! Natalie Portman-spun manic pixie dream girl), Rory asserted her loner status by listening to “Know Your Onion!” alone at her prep school lunch table. (The band was also on a weird college episode in which Rory and Paris kissed on Spring Break to impress dudes.)

2.) ‘Gilmore Girls’ Taught Us To Hate Corporate Shilling Via Nick ...