You know about the music and if you don't think you'll like it you won't--impeccable pop metal of no discernible substance. In short, it's product but it's interesting product because it was created for the CD age. Stick with over an hour of material after four years (how long can 12 songs be?) and being astute technocrats who've conceived for hour-long formats, namely cassettes, which outsell vinyl discs now, and CDs, which out-dollar them, they've elected to put it all on a single album. I find the cassette sound a little dim as commercial cassette sound tends to be, and although I do find myself enjoying the vinyl's warmth once I've cranked my stereo to an 8 or 9, the CD's clarity comes through decisively as the needle approached the outgroove. I mean, I have trouble perceiving these guys as human under normal circumstances. Not docked a not for not padding it into a double. C+