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What confuses me the most is that I am like 90% sure that I downloaded a HD version of the BIO music video back in 2007 so there must be at least a 720p or 1080p version. I can't find any hints of a HD download back then anymore so maybe I am just dreaming it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Warner_Records_compilation_albums It's not like the 5 guys from the band do this stuff on their own and I don't think anyone complaining about this (and the HT20 situation back then) are specifically mad at Mike, Rob, Brad, Joe and Dave. They have one of the biggest labels behind them that should have more than enough resources and experience to get this kind of stuff right.

I think this is misleading. The majority of the quality upgrades don't involve AI upscaling at all, at least from what I can tell. For example, WFTE has no AI upscaling involved at all (and I would also assume that all AI models would produce shit output in that case anyway). I think in most cases they just had a better quality version laying around that were simply never uploaded to YouTube or they rescanned original tapes (like they most probably did for OSC back then). They only applied AI upscaling very selectively, e.g. in LOATR they only use it for specific scenes. I would guess that 75% of that video for example doesn't involve AI upscaling at all (or just very minor to bring it over the 4k finish line so to speak). All the Chester solo scenes for example don't look AI upscaled to me while the scenes in the beginning where Mike pulls of the helmet or the close up shot of Rob playing chess are definitely AI upscaled in a very visible way. I wish they would have kept it away from all scenes though since a) I think the videos would have looked good enough without it and b) it creates this very distinct AI upscaling artifacting which we never can get rid of. AI upscaling is something that will only improve from here on out and with tech like RTX upscaling, it will happen on the client while playing back the video, but we won't be able to benefit from that in the future since parts of the videos already went through one pass of AI upscaling.

I'd pay a good amount of money to see this live:

Please explain to me how they are going to make any impactful income from this? The couple of listens this gets is basically a rounding error that probably covers the cost it took to put this out.

How is it different though?

People who are against this, how would you feel about funko pop figures of the band, including Chester?

The multiple versions of the same album in general is completely overdone right now and it needs to stop. TS is taking this to a whole new level with her upcoming album. It's an insult to fans. There is no way arguing around it. Create one product that people want to buy. If you want to make bank, which is totally fine, make a package that is worth spending money on (like the anniversary bundles) but don't create the same product in different colors with the only goal to make people buy it multiple times. I don't know in which world this is acceptable from any artist. And please don't start this "It'S aLl On ThE rEcOrD lAbEl" bullshit. LP was big enough to negotiate contractual terms in their favor, there is no way they are hostages of the record label (and they continuously repeated that they are very happy with their relationship with Warner anyway).

We don't have to assume

Why do the compilation album and Friendly Fire need different covers? Lost also didn't have separate artwork and just used the M20 cover. I think the white version is the only thing we will get and the green thing is some fan made stuff.

I think the cover and the title itself are perfectly fine. The cover might be a little bit boring but it‘s definitely not bad. And the title is just a fun word play. Nothing wrong with that. Just the art style around everything screams „graphic design is my passion“ in the worst possible way which is not what I am used to when it comes to LP releases.

Seems like some accompanying merch already leaked on the German Amazon store. It has the same green and general art style. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jeedy-Journals/dp/B09BYBFP3W

On Spotify some of the video clips that play in the background got updated with a green scene that includes a number. In order that list is: 01 Crawling 02 Faint 03 Numb/Encore 04 Papercut 05 Breaking The Habit 06 In The End 07 Bleed It Out 08 Somewhere I Belong 09 Waiting For The End 10 Castle Of Glass

What's your point? Should people only come here to praise what he is doing without any criticism? If people stop coming here once they are unhappy with something, this forum would be completely dead by now.

Copying from what I wrote in the shoutbox: I was debating with myself a lot recently if I should just not post anything here anymore to not just vent negative energy, but I guess I just want to get it out of my system once. At this point I am glad if LP is not going to do anything anymore. It seems like Mike lost all of his artistic vision and direction. All of his recently released songs were very mid, he got lost in all of this NFT/Web 3.0 non-sense and now this whole Already Over stuff. It's almost as if he slowly turns into a caricature of himself. Stuff he did was very inspiring and motivational to me, now I just roll my eyes and cringe when I see what he is up to next.