The question is, with this kind of release, what constitutes the "proper" album? Does the deluxe edition or the proletarian edition? Are those 8 tracks bonuses or integral to our understanding of what the band was trying to say? At this point, I tend to believe that the 10 track version of In Rainbows is the "album" while everything else is bonus fodder. Of course, the actual CD release could change that ...
Erik Gonzalez said on October 23, 2007:
The question is, with this kind of release, what constitutes the "proper" album? Does the deluxe edition or the proletarian edition? Are those 8 tracks bonuses or integral to our understanding of what the band was trying to say? At this point, I tend to believe that the 10 track version of In Rainbows is the "album" while everything else is bonus fodder. Of course, the actual CD release could change that ...