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Neil Young’s album can be heard streaming here. MP3s might start floating around the blogosphere pretty soon, and I’ll link when possible. I’ve listened to all 10 tracks now, and they’re all pretty good, but Track #7 “Let’s Impeach the President” is really great. I can only wonder how much airtime on traditional radio it’ll get though. Meanwhile, the New York Times has a review. The article explains why you can’t select which track you want to listen to (you have to hear the whole album) on the current streaming audio that they have up:

Mr. Young wants the album heard as a whole. The online streams play through from beginning to end; until the CD is ready, the downloadable copies will be available only as a bundle of the full album. “That first impression is so important,” he said. “Instead of just going to ‘Let’s Impeach the President,’ people will have to absorb the whole thing. To understand the songs, you need to understand where the whole album’s coming from. It protects my right as an artist to have the work presented the way I created it.”

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