vfuertes wrote:the album is listenable, the second song, "bodysnatchers" have some mojo and a cool motorik swing

Welcome to the board.
You had me at "motorik."

-A

CAVEAT EMPTOR, motherfucking whiners...

If the bit-rate was a factor for you, and it was not listed on the website, then you could have simply sent an e-mail enquiring about what the rate was before clicking 'SEND' on your payment (or non-payment).

I wanted to know some additional specs about the 24-bit .wav files for Excellent Italian Greyhound, so I sent an e-mail to Touch & Go and I got a quick, polite response. I then made my choice, based on that information.

If you feel duped, then you just made an assumption and are actually mad at yourself for acting upon that assumption. Dipshits.

i'm enjoying the album. i didn't pay a cent for it. the only digital reverb is on Thom's voice. very weird. it has a good mood.

there are far more hate-able things in this universe than fuckin' RADIOHEAD.

jeez.

Not Crap.

After one listen, it didn't grab me like [i]Hail to The Thief[/b] did.
It's good, but not great.

that damned fly wrote:people who choose to listen to radiohead deserve what they get.

A-Fuckin'-Men.

mr.arrison wrote:i'm enjoying the album. i didn't pay a cent for it. the only digital reverb is on Thom's voice. very weird. it has a good mood.

there are far more hate-able things in this universe than fuckin' RADIOHEAD.

jeez.

Not Crap.

Absolutely.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:After one listen, it didn't grab me like Hail to The Thief did.
It's good, but not great.

You know, I heard it more of Hail To The Thief perfected. I mean, it's closest to that stylistically and melodically, but the flubs and awkward bits of the preceding album are snipped away, and the melodies are spare and fucking gorgeous.

Reckoner?

Reckoner!

Holy fuck!

Yeah it's not that great.
I'm a radiohead fan and am a little disappointed in the album.

I was remembering though
When KidA came out
the day it came out they did this thing
where they played the entire thing on the radio
again. giving it away for free in a way.

voerking wrote:this album...sounds like it's being blasted out of blown computer speakers inside a trash can.

no shit? think the software had anything to do with that?

survey time:

if Shellac had chosen to release Excellent Italian Grayhound as a "pay-what-you-want" model, how much would you have paid for it?

I don't have the balls to make this a proper thread, though:

and complaining about bitrates makes me really sad:
if you can tell the difference between 160 and 320 kb, surely you can tell the difference between 320kb and a normal CD...
no matter what they did, a digital download would never sound as good as a Cd... hence the "pay what you want" model.

And an e-mail to the webmasters would have quickly revealed that the digital download was indeed 160kb. I don't see why they had to mention every little detail on the sites on a product sold for free... What were people expecting? Lossless files?

Personally, I find the album to be great.