Well, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that YACHT, electro-party duo and designers of the Macbook Air sleeve, have just signed to DFA Records, home of like-minded party fiends LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean. A perfect fit indeed.

Now for the bad news. In the tradition of Gus Van Sant’s pointless remake of Psycho, The band’s newest video for “Summer Song,” blatantly rips off a scene from the 80’s satire Tapeheads. The movie stars John Cusack and Tim Robbins as ex-security guards who try to make it in the music video business. The original and most hilarious scene below, features fictional band Cube Squared performing the Devo song “Baby Doll”:

And here is the new YACHT video:

Seriously? Ok to be clear, it’s not just the blatancy and utter laziness of YACHT’s video that eeerks us, it’s the fact that the original clip spoofed the ridiculousness of the music industry IN 1988 (irrelevant these days)! Not to mention that the absurdity of a hunky band performing a Devo song and Don Cornelius’s excellent turn as the shady video producer make it so funny and impossible to duplicate. YACHT’s video has no resonance other than to say “hey, we love that scene from that 80’s movie!”

Are we over thinking this? Hm, maybe. I guess we just expected a little more creativity from such a cool band. We still dig them, but we’re disappointed.

You can listen to more of YACHT’s music on their MySpace page and buy the Summer Song EP from Insound.

You can also watch another clip from Tapeheads, courtesy of Emily.