I have only listened to GOYB, and have avoided the 30 second clips. I have also not listened to NLOTH2. However, yesterday I was watchin the Sean O-Hagan clip and they had some music playing in the background from what appeared to be one of the Fez sessions. I hope it wasn't a song. Again, I only heard it once for about 30 seconds, then stopped it. I can't even remember what it sounded like.
I think two years ago I listened to one beach clip for twenty seconds but stopped it. Plus, I couldn't hear shit anyway.
Haha, we all sound like Catholic teenagers rationalizing away our first sexual experiences, convincing ourselves we're still "pure"..LOL.
All in all, I agree with a poster on page 8. The entire rush of buying the album at the store, racing home, going through the booklet, the smell of the plastic case, seeing the art on the CD, popping it in, and that firsh rush of not knowing what you're about to hear is priceless. Quite frankly, there aren't too many opportunities left to do it either with U2 getting up there in age and taking longer amounts of time to put out albums.
Both ATYCLB and HTDAAB were somewhat ruined for me b/c there were no surprises. I listened to everything. The last album that was new to me was POP - I had only heard Discoteque.
This time, I'm holding out!