Someone leaked the new, Dave Fridmann produced, Sleater-Kinney album The Woods to the P2P networks and the ladies are not happy about it. As a matter of fact, in a letter on their website they say:
The http://www.j-hokkaido.com/wp-content/themes/twentyten/computer-science-homework-help.html most honest thing we can say is that it breaks our hearts to think of this being out there early. It actually just feels awful. The release date is 3 months away. We have worked for so long on this record. It’s not real for us until May 24th; that is the moment when we get to share this piece of our lives that we are so proud of, to share it with you the way we intended; please wait until then to share it with us.
If you have put this record up on the Internet, please take it down now.(full text)
I honestly don?t know how I feel about this one. I mean, people who will download an S-K album are the same folks that will most likely buy the disc when it comes out so I don’t think it’s a fear of lost sales thing. I?ve heard a few tracks and the disc sure sounds real enough to me even though it?s not May 24 yest, so I?m not sure where they?re going with that one either. It is Sleater-Kinney though and they do seem heartfelt and genuinely upset so I guess I?m gonna side with them on this one even though I?m usually in favor of sharing ? and buying ? music.
By the way, the disc is unlike anything they?ve done before. Acid-guitar freakouts and distorto-drums. It?s awesome. But wait ?til May 24 before checking it out, m?kay?