Originally posted by germcevoy:God id be pissed with no lossless release.
That's what pissed me off about Unreleased and Rare (and the whole Complete U2). First up, there were nine or so songs never-before released in any fornat, released in 128Kbps AAC, some of which were absolutely brilliant. They might have been demos and outtakes, but that's absolutely no excuse to put them out there in crap formats because they'd never been released. You can't tell me they were recorded in lossy format.
No way I'm paying for a poor lossy release. This is why the digital age of online distribution should never take off, unless the record labels, the artists and associated parties agree on doing it right and getting it right. How much does actually releasing an album, on CD cost nowadays? It doesn't even have to have a booklet, just a simple silver CD face and that's it.
Why not do what Radiohead did? Release the album a few months before the physical release. If the songs are good, people will buy them. Surely U2 know this.
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