I seriously doubt that. It's not in WMG's interests unless Apple threw insane amounts of money at them. Even then I think the band would opposite it vehemently. iTunes exclusive albums tend to be live albums and compilations. It would be unprecidented for a release like this to be distributed that way.
Not necessarily. U2 did that exclusive iTunes album a while back that was forced onto everyone's iPods/iPhones. Remember that? Granted, LP would never be that stupid..but iTunes exclusives have happened like that before.
Yes and that was incredibly bad PR for U2. People were furious, myself included. The band have always been incredibly business and PR savvy, they know better.
I dunno man, I really just can't stand most of the rapping on that album. KTTK just sounds like an overly aggressive nursery rhyme to me, with nothing interesting going on rhythmically at all, and AFN, while I like the flow, suffers from being far too repetitive for my taste. ALITS, while I genuinely like it as a verse, doesn't really have a flow worth mentioning, and Wastelands, even with the best flow in the album (IMO) and some really clever wordplay, was never my favourite rap from the guy. I just really don't like the rapping on THP. Now I'll stop derailing the hype thread haha.
You know what, the band doesn't have to tell us when new music is coming out. They don't have to give us any clues or whatnot. But what they NEED to do is take down that ANNOYING home page for linkinpark.com saying "We are just getting started in the studio...." (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Like, make the page black or white for all I care but just change that so that we know something is coming eventually.
Sorry for that stupid question but I don't actually know exactly what it means ? Does this also mean no physical cd?
I think so. And yes, the typical pre-releasing new album sings aren't appearing as well, like some site changes, at least some design chages on it. I thought that we'll get the LPU app before the new album comes, so they can hype us a little with that too.
I really hope it's not a digital-only thing. I don't have the means to buy music from any online store. Even I'm struggling right now with planning what can I do to buy the CD (especially if there's a special edition).
So Nickelbacks album is coming out in June and they already released a single, Papa Roach released a single at the end of last year and still no release date for the new album. GIVE US SOMETHING LINKIN PARK OH MY GAWWWW!!