Those who don't already know about The Lion and the Witch probably won't care.

Featuring seven live tracks recorded during Weezer's summer "World Cup Tour" of Japan, The Lion and the Witch is a hardcore fan's EP.

Sold exclusively by independent music retailers, The Lion and the Witch is an elusive catch. Factor in the detail that just over 25,000 CDs were pressed, and The Lion and the Witch becomes the Holy Grail of Weezer-verse.

If you can sniff out an EP on Ebay or an independent online music retailer, it's worth the bucks to get your own individually-numbered copy.

The Lion and the Witch benefits from an assortment of Weezer masterpieces from all eras, including the oft-ignored Pinkerton period.

Lead singer Rivers Cuomo's haphazard dialogue and jilted Japanese are almost as entertaining as the EP's artwork and inside-joke liner notes.

If you don't cheer at Karl Koch's photographic skills, don't see the irony in Cuomo spitting out "El Scorcho" for a Japanese audience, and don't get the joke of "Rupert Peasley" producing the EP, your best bet is to skip it and wait until Weezer releases album five sometime later this year.

-Reviewed by Caralyn Green