“but what i don’t like is someone calling it shit after getting a FREE download. (you got what you paid for, SO SHUT UP)

like a homeless man bitching about the free food he just got.”

that wins the award for wittiest comment on this whole blog. good job putting these fools in their place.

By the way, quit bashing “Vicarious”! I’de like to see any of you guys write a song like that! When I first heard “Vicarious” it floored me, absolutely confirmed for me that they were gonna deliver. Anyone who doesn’t like “The Pot” is absolutely nuts. That song makes my heart stop its so good. This album is entirely above reproach and to criticize it because you think its image and sound is “recycled” or “commercial” is to miss the point. These are artists presenting you their souls in musical form and doing a damn good job of it. You think Tool is about esoteric and mysterious lyrics? Think again. That’s never what they were about (listen to Undertow or Opiate for chrissake!)

Tool is so great because they take the time to make sure every release is amazing. I for one am gonna be like a kid in a candy store on May 2nd, and I will be every bit as excited to buy it as I was to first hear it. I can’t wait to hear it live. This album KICKS ASS. There is simply no getting around it. It is everything I wanted and more.

So anyway…my point…quit bashing the album you tools!

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -Benjamin Franklin

CHEERS!

*I’ll wait until May 2nd, what you’re all hearing is obviously not Tool. There’s no way it could have been downloaded by anyone but Tool, and if they were, they would oviously be decoys.

silly lil punks…

http://www.counterfist.com/music.htm

LMAO, they sure sound like tool demos to me!

THINK FOR YOURSELF. QUESTION AUTHORITY. (Tim Leary)

As for the LEAK… The new TOOL recording leaked? How could this happen? IMPOSSIBLE!!! Not really… The most likely place that this was leaked from was a duplication facility. How? Oh come on! Humans are crafty! These are not high tech security centers, they are FACTORIES!!!

There are three releases floating around that i have come across… if you are a FAN and you are unimpressed, and the songs are under 5 minutes, guess what? you got the DEMO (or whatever it is- sure sounds like tool to me, but the songs are shorter, simpler and less developed), and that’ll be good news. How can you tell? If the track 10,000 days is 11:15, then you got the real deal. Here is what I’ve gathered so far about the LEAKS…

ONE: definitely not tool, from what i understand friends of theirs- A KNOWN DECOY(I skipped this one)this was the early one from FEB/March. Some have said it’s actually: Jack Maksuta- 4 Score And 20. I don’t know, don’t care, and haven’t heard it.

TWO: a disk calling itself 10’000 days, that certainly appears (to my silly ass) to be tool, but the songs are short and rather undeveloped- perhaps demos(a term I’m using rather loosely here)… You can simply compare the first track Vicarious from your download to the one on the radio, and when I compared one track: 10,000 days, the “demo” version was not the same song as the PROPER RELEASE, not in content or structure, texture or length (I didn’t bother to compare other tracks- I’ve moved on to nonstop listening of the proper release).

THREE: the PROPER RELEASE… Incredible, worth buying, and if you could download it and hear it a couple of weeks before everyone else, in the words of eric cartman: whats the big f*kin deal B*tch? this is the same debate that was going on when “with teeth” came out, and I downloaded that and then bought it too, as well as seeing the club tour (YES I got my tickets to TOOL in PHX!) and the stadium tour, along with a bunch of people I know.

As for ‘spoiling the surprise’- maybe you never snuck downstairs to see what was under the tree before you were ‘allowed’ to xmas morning… I DID, no harm done. Top it off that people all over the world in “the industry” will have heard it long before the 2cnd… and most of them are not fans, will write crap reviews that will effect sales, or throw it out in favor of the new JZ release (or wuteva). Some of these bastards will even resell that prerelease they legally received at a resale shop, and some fan will pay to much for something that shouldn’t be in there in the first place.

ME? I’ll tell everyone I know how GREAT it is (because I’ve heard it and it is- to me), and share it with folks who I know will go to the show and buy the disk! the REAL Underground Street Team… Savvy individuals who see this as a game and are not trying to profit from someone elses work. It’s true that there are some pirates out there probably trying to sell burned disks on a street corner or ebay and they are WRONG, and it’s likely that those buying and selling this to profit are gonna get burned by the decoys. GOOD! Perfect even!

I love it. I love the game, I loved the chase, I loved avoiding the first decoy, Downloading the demo(?) finding out the track lengths were to short, and searching again. I loved finding it, and I’m loving listening to it. I’ll buy it when it comes out to support the band because it’s good, NOT because I have to to hear it… and I’ll share it with close friends who I know won’t try to profit from “The GAME”.

If you know the rules, there is really nothing wrong with the game. None of this is going to change the world, but a song, might change the world for one individual… Support the artists you love!

Just kidding, it’s ok, maybe not as great as some of Tool’s other work, but still ass kicking!