Your SAK correspondent, in an effort to be one of the cool kids, made a couple of pitches to Paper Thin Walls in the past few months, but they were rejected, and now it seems it was never meant to be.

PTW, whose editorial half was supposed to be the front end of a download store that simply never materialized (those must be some unhappy investors over at Getty), was done posting its regular content as of Friday last week (but had a characteristically smirky retrospective to go out on) but also has a minorly head-scratching best-of ‘08 addendum today.

For all the negative trends that PTW quietly escalated (chiefly indienet megasnark in their particular form of blogs linked to with piss-taking headlines), it was an editorially independent resource for legal, left field MP3s and, just as importantly, an intelligent, prose-deft ref on a field that, during PTW’s two year tenure, broadend so much as to be practically unplayable (they tore down the goalposts during SXSW’s PTW/Todd P ‘07 Throwdown).

At least we know we can continue to get our fix of Christopher R. Weingarten’s rhetorical wit over at his new home (and your SAK correspondent is not making this up) Jamd.