Originally Posted by jovifan93

While mostly true, some things to add:

1. The lyrics in Complicated actually are different, too, though it's only one line that has been changed:

At the end of the bridge before the first chorus, the pre-release line is: "Is there anybody else that feels like me?" whereas the release line is: "Up is down and black is white to me".

2. I'm not so sure if it doesn't exist somewhere in (near) perfect quality, unless the promo CDs we talked about were handed out like that (with the songs in reduced quality) on purpose. That'd be ony possibility. Or the one who shared it f*cked up and re-recorded it or ripped it with 128 kbit/s or less, only to later spread it as FLAC or the 160 kbit/s MP3s that I have.

3. I don't know how many versions of that pre-release album are circulating, but the one I have does have all the titles I listed above in the same quality. Not perfect, but very listenable. Like a MP3 rip of a CD, just done with too low a bitrate, which is probably what happened (see no 2.) and which would explain the noise (on Nothing especially, since there are lots of cymbals in the parts affected, as far as I'm concerned).