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Though he was arguably the most popular solo artist of all time, one of the great joys of being a serious Michael Jackson fan is that some of his best work is remarkably obscure, even after he had already achieved legendary status.

For example, after Michael had ad-libbed an a capella version of the first few bars of his song "Who Is It" during his celebrated interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1992, the song was hurriedly rushed out as a single to capitalize on the remarkable performance. In the record label's haste, a video was assembled from pre-existing clips and served as the video most commonly used for promoting the single in the United States.

The song went on to peak at #14 on the pop charts, but during its run a lavish new video was commissioned, directed by a pre-Se7en, pre-Fight Club David Fincher. Though it's barely been aired (and most compilations use the placeholder montage clip instead), it's among the best videos Michael ever released, and I'd argue it's the finest.

There's an infinite number of amazing music videos to show Michael's work, but I do find something reassuring that there are gems we'll all be discovering for the rest of our lives.

This was probably the one clip of Michael Jackson I wish everybody had seen.

Sadly, MichaelJacksonForSale.com does not actually let you purchase the King of Pop for your very own. However, it does have lots of interesting memorabilia, and it accepts PayPal, which isn't real money and so it's basically like you can get any of this stuff for free.

Proceed directly to the online shop and check out amazing merchandise like the stuffed animal replicas of Michaels' pets. And unbelievably, I still can't find a decent Beat It or Thriller jacket for sale anywhere.

These days, I think people in traditional media outlets are writing stories just so they'll get linked on particular blogs.

John Cook trumping up a fuss in Slate about Sasha and Jessica's analysis of Merritt-ocracy seems like it was written just so Jay would maybe write a post about it.

The Times' A.O. Scott seems to have written his lengthy, amusing slam of The Da Vinci Code just so Matthew could cover it in the Bad Review Revue.

And three thousand eight hundred words about Michael Jackson's finances? In the Times Business section? Clearly that's written just so I would link to it.