Turns out Scott wrote the dialogue himself in response to his server being compromised. In a post on July 22, Scott explained what really happened.

"The truth is our server was "compromised." Whatever the f*$% that means. That's what our hosting company said. Almost certainly the work of a bot leeching on our RAM. Or the person sending nasty missives from Firecrotch's CrackBerry. Or someone who hates indie rock a cappella.

The sorta-hack even grabbed the attention of the folks over at Gawker, with the headline of, "Corporate Websites Too Irrelevant to Hack."

With the hack behind Stereogum, it didn't take long for readers to start requesting "PERHAPS SUFJAN WAS A POOR PASSWORD" T-shirts.

• definitely would buy a Sufjan/Password shirt.
  
• I'll third-or-so on that Sufjan/password shirt. Glad you're back.
  
• i also require a sufjan/password shirt. to the printers with you!
  
• sufjan tees all around

And just as soon as the T-shirt requests went out, the Flickr photo prototypes came in.

As Blogebrity discussed, the true signs of a hip blogging superstar are a T-shirt and personalized Flickr photo set. Who knows what kind of merchandise is in store for Stereogum the next time the server is compromised...