haha! guess what guys? this is 99 per cent NOT LIKELY TO BE THE FINAL MIX OF THE SONGS!
ok, i didnt need to capitalize that.
but still, check this out from a poster over at atease...
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good news for all those saying it is not mastered:
editor from cmj: new music magazine on cmj message board(he has the whole album, mastered then d/led the tracks of the sources we've been getting them from):
"got this(Hail to the Thief) in the office on friday afternoon (i think it's mastered; usually an unmastered advance will say so on it, and this one doesn't). been listening to it all weekend. as expected, it's really good. i'll have to listen to it more before saying where it'll fall in my radiohead preference order."
THEN: "oh guys also, i just downloaded the version that's on the net. please do not judge the record by that; those are different mixes, and unmastered mixes, than what appears on the final version of the record. the record sounds a LOT better than that. guess studio security ain't quite what it should be these days. "