anberlin's leaked album

I got home tonight after a full day of shopping in Sactown/Roseville and read a comment from my anberlin friend who lives on the east coast saying "did you hear the news about the leak?"
so I immediately looked at all the bulletins from the day seeing if I could find something.
Anberlin Road Trips had posted a blog about it saying they weren't going to download it and how the guys needed their hard work to be respected and stuff.
then I read a bulletin from another anberlin buddy saying she downloaded it and said it was the most amazing thing she'd heard and whatnot.
blah blah blah. then I went on their page and read people's comments saying "New Surrender is great! I downloaded it" and crap like that.
I got kind of upset and started crying and then commented anberlin saying this:

I'm crying right now since I heard about the leak.

all the comments and bulletins and crap I've

read have said it's amazing and all that jazz.

and I really want to listen to it, but at the same time,

I don't think I could bring myself to do it.

you put a lot of time and effort into making it and

I don't want to take away the magic and splendor

of ripping off that annoying plastic wrapper, listening

to the sound of the cd reluctantly coming out of its case,

sliding it into my cd player, and turning my stereo up to

-13 dBs to listen to it for the very first time on September 30th.

I want that moment to be absolutely breathtaking.

and if I listened to it now, it would take that all away

and that's not worth it to me.

I hope you "catch" whoever leaked it or whatever. or

maybe you did this on purpose to see how people would respond.

oh crap, here I go on another conspiracy theory lol.

I love you all and I will wait until the last day of

September to listen to the album in full :)

I love them more than life itself, I really truly do, and I don't want to take the magic away.

I'm glad to hear people like it, but simultaneously I'm kind of ashamed to hear they did that. not cool guys. not cool.