So, yeah, I’ll be up front about it. I’m the jagoff who paid over $30 including shipping to lay my hands on this thing, and I was drooling to have it. Ten tracks, including one previously available remix by Four Tet which is really the rallying point of my yelps and squeals this morning. I can put up with the fact that several tracks are simply live tracks of HTTT-era songs and earlier, and the fact that Fog (Again) removes the stuttering percussion and twisted atmospherics I liked so much from the version available on the Knives Out single. I can handle the naggingly mediocre Los Angeles version of I Will (what is it about that town that sucks the blood from the lives of outsiders?). What really pisses me off is the audacity to forcefeed clearly helpless fans such as myself with the noxious, screaming static on Four Tet’s Scatterbrain remix. It only happens four times total, but each repetition carves out your eardrums and leaves a hollow ringing inside. For the dear price clearly paid by fans far outside Japan (and here’s to betting the Japanese may not pay the lion’s share of the booty for this album’s take), could this not have been rereleased at a later date, with corrections made? I wanted to hear this, indeed needed to, but I could have waited. I’m sure we all could have, considering the availability of most of this material anyways. For shame, and a pox on all your houses, dearest Radiohead!