Moby Mugged!

Somebody out there doesn't like Moby.

And it's not just Eminem.

The mega-selling electronica artist, noted pacifist and--let's face it--wimpy-looking guy was roughed up by three men outside a Boston night spot on Thursday, according to a post on his Website, moby.com.

Moby was signing autographs for some fans outside said club, when the unidentified assailants punched him in the pate and pepper-sprayed him.

The decidedly non-threatening artist, in Beantown to perform at WBCN-FM's "Xmas Rave" holiday concert, had just finished his gig at the Paradise Club when he was blindsided by the men.

"They punched me from behind and I really had no idea what was going on," the bald musician writes. "I assumed that a bar fight had spilled out of the bar and that somehow I had gotten caught in the middle of it, but no. After being punched in the head from behind a few times I turned around to see what was going on and one of them punched me in the face a couple of times and then they all ran away."

Two club security guards and Moby's manager rushed to the musician's aid. That's when the trio of thugs unleashed what appeared to be Mace.

"Bloody" and "beaten up," the bestactacled techno titan said he suffered facial bruises and cuts, but declined medical treatment.

The assailants also broke his glasses. (We're guessing they'd have kicked sand in his face, too, if there were a beach nearby.)

"The assault could've been a lot worse, but I'm very curious as to why three men would coordinate an attack on me? You know, three against one? And the 'one' in question is me, hardly the most physically threatening person in the world," writes the singer.

He called on his aggressors to explain their actions by posting anonymously on his message board. He then turned the other cheek.

"I'm not angry. I don't feel vindictive," he adds. "Not to sound weird or wimpy, but I'm a pacifist and I believe in forgiveness. I just hope that at some point in these guy's lives they come to realize that hurting other people is wrong."

This isn't the first time Moby, aka Richard Melville Hall (who, natch, received the nickname Moby because he's a descendant of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville), wound up on the wrong end of a bar brawl.

A few years back, when he was deejaying in a nighclub in Port Chester, New York, he said he ended up getting jumped by some frat-boy "belligerent drunks" who tried to give him a thumping for no apparent reason.

Then, of course, there's Eminem, who ridiculed Moby in the track "Without Me" and even threatened to beat the skinny deejay up at the MTV Video Music Awards last August.

"I don't know what to say--that little Moby girl threw me out of my game," the rapper said upon accepting an award. "Keep booing, little girl. I will hit a man with glasses."

For the record, Slim Shady's record label declined to comment on last night's attack, calling any connection between the Moby beat-down and the feud between the musicians "ridiculous."

As for Moby, he seemed to shrug off the incident.

"Maybe they don't like skinny bald guys who play cover songs? I'm sure that's it. It's my fault," Moby writes on his site. "Maybe I should've posted a warning on the entrance to the club, 'warning: tonight's show will at times be comprised of cover songs poorly played by Moby, a skinny bald musician."

That skinny bald musician, meanwhile, won two awards at this week's Billboard Music Awards: Electronic Artist of the Year and Electronic Album of the Year for his latest release, 18.

The bruised but not bowed Moby is due in San Francisco Friday night for a radio station-sponsored holiday concerts, followed by similar gigs over the weekend in Los Angeles and Chicago.