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It turns out that the copy of hail to the thief that has been floating about was a unmastered version which the band was working on back in february.
Nigel: Not final mix
Nigel Godrich showed up on the official Radiohead messageboard ealier ago asking where he could download some of the leaked tracks. Less than an hour later, he came back and had this to say:
Its the rough mixes ....
some tracks not even finished.
aint that a bitch?
Not really what I'd want the world to hear, frankly.
boo.
Jonny> "So it turns out the leaked music is a stolen copy of early, unmixed edits and roughs - so we're kind of pissed off about it, to be honest. I see it like this (this is just me): there's napster-style file sharing of released music, then there's early internet distribution of what we at least consider to be a finished body of work. Then there's this - work we've not finished, being released in this sloppy way, ten weeks before the real version is even available. It doesn't even exist as a record yet.....
So yes, we're annoyed - the songs are good on the recordings, which you can hear. But we worked on them after this point until we were happy with them. This is why we're pissed off - we didn't give up on them in February (which is what you're hearing) and it's just a shame that, to your ears, we did. So of course people will still download them and hear them, I can understand the temptation. It's not you lot I'm pissed off about, it's just the situation I guess. It's stolen work, fer fuck's sake.
What do you all think ? I know it'll come out for real eventually, and it'll all be fine, but I thought you all might as well know what's in my head...."
<Nigel> "Hey listen, Its not that it's not mastered........ It's not mixed! Some of it isn't even finished. comprendez?"
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Hmm, interesting, but I wonder how much of that is true, and how much is bullshit. The songs were ripped from an "Advance", a promotional CD which may or may not have all the songs, and sometimes can be unmastered. These are all releases that have been leaked to the internet since Jan 1st, 2003:
03.30.2003 Radiohead-Hail_to_the_Thief-Advance-2003-iTS
02.16.2003 Radiohead-Stop_Whispering-Limited_Edition-CDM-1993-JUST
02.08.2003 Radiohead-Creep-Promo-EP-1993-JUST
01.18.2003 Radiohead-Climbing_Up_the_Walls-Bootleg-2002-SnS
01.17.2003 Radiohead-Remix_Project-Bootleg-2001-SnS
I fear that its merely speculation to say that they were unmastered and unfinished. Maybe they said that to encourage people to wait for the official release? :huh: <_< ;)
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I don't know he seemed pretty pissed that it was a crap version.
They are known to be perfectionists.
Still don't matter much i have the early released ones and im gonna buy the new album when it comes out.
we shall see then.
:rolleyes:
