Don't you just miss the days when an album would come out, and you'd know very little about it until the first single hit, and the interviews started, and you saw the posters and the billboards, etc? It used to feel like an event. I was thirteen when Bat II came out - man that was an event!
That said, I love what Meat is doing with the listening parties on Hang Cool. Expecially ensuring that the album isn't just given to journalists and then instantly ends up on youtube and the torrent sites. Smart move! In the way this album has been promoted - special tracks released, chapters of the story, sneak previews - well, it has some of that event-like vibe I was talking about earlier.
I don't know about you guys, but I like that idea
