[joethelion]

gotta pretty much agree with BrotherLovesDub

and I really don't see any comparisson between what he said and what adam was talking about

if you really really don't want an album to leak - why not just do what some of the 'major' artists do?

like - Bowie only held 'listening parties' for "Heathen"
Radiohead sent out weird quasi-mp3 player things for Kid A and only sent out like a single / ep's worth of material out for Amnesiac... and the leaked version of HTTT wasn't even the final version

basically - if you really want to push reviews in print -> listening parties are the way to go, and you won't get anything "leaked" out from them... and I'd imagine they're cheaper to do than printing out tons and tons of promo's (and get them leaked) and you're probably going to get a more positive reveiw too...