I know this one is tough to come by. I never download music for free unless the artist offers it on their website or something like that. But after almost a year of waiting and no way to purchase a copy of this album, I was able to find a torrent for it. If it ever is made available for sale I will gladly by a copy.
Anyway...
If anyone else has it or has heard it, what are your thoughts on it? I know it's old news for people that were able to get them at the farewell shows. But it's new to me since I just was able to "obtain" a pirated copy last week.
A lot of it I either have had or at least heard before. But from the songs I didn't already know, I really like Cold Snap, Pity & Fear, the demo of Diminishing Returns that sounds nothing like the album version and the demo of You Look So Happy. The cover of Maneater is also pretty good, actually. And I really like the cover of Louisiana, 1927. I know everyone seems to have a hard on for Defrocked and, while I like it, I would put the ones I listed above ahead of it. Also, Big Wide Empty didn't hit me the same way it appeared to hit others. It's good, but same as Defrocked, behind the others if I were to rate the songs.
Although I think that it sucks that I had to stoop to getting this illegaly, I'm glad I finally at least got some version of it so I can listen to it. Overall it's really good and it's always cool to hear stuff that you've never heard before of course, even if it is a demo of a song that's on one of their albums.
