it's really laughable....ha ha haha haha oh ohoh ohhoh hahah...fuck him, he's a millioanaire and has tuned into grey drudge

What 'additions' are we talking about here? Morrissey's old school reports? His writ against morrissey-solo? Love letters to Sandie Shaw?

We need to know these things.

won't download the new cd but will rip that Hollywood bowl dvd if anyone gets a copy. No, they are not the same....

thetexasbloke

when he retracts his assinine accusations or at least comes back to Canada, then iwill buy it, along with ROTT.

but I actually pay for my music... ok, not all of it, but certainly when it belongs to my favourite artist. I've got a promo single of Paris and even then I'll be buying the real thing when it hits the shops.
I mean imagine a world where music comes free, every pseudo cod bollocks intellectual who can just about wield a guitar, form a sentence, or dribble on some decks will smear their brainless idiocy across the internet. Every third human being (plus a couple of tambourine waving apes) will be the next big thing and featured on the front cover of the NME. Meanwhile there'll be no real musicians left because it'll be a defunct career. Every real musician will be forced to perform and write in their spare time after they've just got back from their 12 hr shift at Lidl ... cos lets face it, nearly all proper musicians never acheived anything more than getting kicked off their school premises with half a GCSE. That's not to mention all those record company execs who'll have to go and get jobs as estate agents and traffic wardens (oh the horror).
If nobody paid, there would be no passion in music, every guitar band will sound like The Kooks, every solo artist like James Blunt, every dance act like Faithless.
I mean imagine a world like that ...
Oh!

Sounds pretty good. The album on a whole is very upbeat to which is refreshing because Morrissey's ballads tend to sound alike. His vocals in "Something is Squeezing My Skull" is right on the money. The album kind of goes in peaks and valleys to which I believe contributes to the band's lack of arrangements. The drumming is spot on but the guitars kind of sound like every other LP that has been released in the past 9 or 10 years. I have to take whatever I can take from a new Morrissey record because {lets face it}, we are never going to get anything on a Smith's level of arrangements and musician contributions. Instead of Years of Refusal, maybe it should have been titled "Years of Repetition".

I will be going to a couple of concerts.

I will be going to a concert or two.

well, i confess that im the one from thousands people on this earth who have downloaded the mp3's that leak on the internet, i just can't help my curiousity, that's all, but i will buy the CD, this album is a gem!

am fury at the blatant scalping in nyc and how there was no control on ticket sales or offers for fans.

raised to wait

I'm very very very very living on the eddge past
week, when I heard it,and till I got the album feb. 16, don't tick on my shoulders from behind,
don't yell at me, better leave me alone

I'm like Steve McQueen not from a cover of a magazine, Mickey Rourke when he's trying to get sober, Sean Penn getting harrased by paparazi,
Johnny Depp not wanting to make a pic of his and
his new playmate around his house

think I made myself clear

Which is half the fun. I can't wait till it's released and I have it in my hands. Downloading it would just make me feel empty. Yeah, the songs are the same and you get it sooner, but it's only complete and emotionally fulfilling when you've actually got the finished product cradled to your heart!

it comes with a free baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will not admit culpability in illegally downloading...However, I was forced to buy a download from itunes to be able to buy tickets to see Moz in Durham. That really sucked. I like to buy CDs of his and find itunes frustrating.

HRT, ECT...neither worked and I am still distraught. I will buy the singles and the forthcoming Smiths album because I believe every reunion rumour I've read on this site since 1998. SARRRRRRRRRRRRCASM

Morrissey has probably had the best part of a couple of grand off me over the years. And he didn't even say thanks. Or let me get close to him. Even after the magistrate court

If he decides to release a photo of his willy within the album contents then I might purchase for aesthetic reasons

and payed twice for itunes downloads that I'll never use, as part of ticket bundles, so I think we are even-STEVEN.

I voted for the 'yes, because it's the right thing to do', which makes me sound like Yvette Cooper, but never mind.

I'm happy to 'download' MP3's of any and all artists to 'sample' their wares at a low quality audio rate. However, if I decide to 'hold' on to the material, I want to have it at CD quality to enjoy to the maximum. Whilst I would never pay for low-quality audio I have done so for FLAC files direct from artists. And yes, I am an audiophile and I've tested my ears under controlled conditions and I hear a big difference between Itunes shop candyfloss rubbish and the real thing.

I only have so much time and attention I can give to music. I've never understood the 'I-Pod full of 10,000 tracks no one ever listens to' phenomenon.

Morrissey's accrued personal wealth is an irrelevant issue. He didn't make this album at home with I-Life 09. It's a big production number. Even if it was done on Garageband:

There's a clear ethical issue in all this. Either act as a responsible patron, a bona-fide member of The Audience or find an excuse for not contributing to the estate of Jerry Finn. I have no idea if he left dependents, but the specifics of his tragic case are irrelevant. Artists need to eat. So do their support colleagues and business associates.

Morrissey has to generate funds to keep a large 'show on the road' whether in the studio or on stage. If you don't gain enjoyment from listening to the music, listen to other artists and support them instead.

The whole internet 'freetard' movement is very short-term, short-sighted and illogical.

Even though I've downloaded, I will buy because I want the album, not because it's great or terrible ( I think it's somewhere between, leaning to not so great). I expect it will grow on me more. The art is an essential part of the whole experience of a body of work contained on a CD/LP. The art on this one is also reflecting my opinion of Y of R.

Just thought i'd fawn over this track a bit. I feel it's one the best EVER Morrissey tracks. Does anyone else feel this way? It's just amazing in every sense. Contemporary high-drama rocking Moz with a return to some "I Know It's Over" imagery. Perfect. I also love "Paris", "Skull" and "Birthday" a lot, too.