Mike Love, who in The Beach Boys universe might as well go around with a black hat and cape and pointy, waxed mustache, tying women to train tracks, has ended a five-year court battle with former bandmate Al Jardine over the use of The Beach Boys name. The litigious Love, who has the temerity to decry misuse of the trademark after besmirching it with such items as his Christmas single "Santa's Goin' to Kokomo," has also sued Brian Wilson twice, in cases only slightly more meritorious than an O.J. Simpson alibi. The specifics of the settlement were not disclosed, but Love was initially looking for a $3,000,000 payday. Jardine has declared his satisfaction with the outcome, but thus far, comments on the matter have not yet been been reported from the man who has been mocked in song by everyone from The Fall to Belle & Sebastian. And amidst all this, where was Wilson, who has more inalienable rights to the name than anyone? Presumably digging a new moat around his sandcastle, because he has his own career and doesn't give a f@#$! Sources have been unable to determine the veracity of rumors that The Beach Boys name will now become the property of Panda Bear, and Wilson will adopt a silly alias and become the "fifth member" of Animal Collective.