The new Mars Volta (Amputechture) is facking awesome. Been listenting to that all day.
Stolen? It's not out for weeks yet. September, I heard. On the other hand, maybe you've scored a version before it went off to Masterdisk to be made loud, compressed and short of dynamic range by Howie Weinberg.
Not stolen but recorded off of the stream they had up on their website. Not sure if they still have it up as their official page is now blocked from where I work. I couldn't tell you what state it's in though and whether it's pre or post masterdisk.
Open it in an audio editor, and if it has dynamic peaks it hasn't been to Masterdisk. If on the other hand, its a big block of red with clipping (stuff exceeding the 0db mark and producing a flat line when you zoom in on it) all over the place, Howie has fucked it up already.
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