Well, Apple isn’t always perfect, it seems. News from the web indicates that iTunes is the source of an unintentional leak of Bon Iver’s self-titled new album a full month before the official release date.

Evidently a handful of incredibly savvy iTunes customers were clickety-clicking around the service and noticed that the album was available there. They quickly grabbed the record before it was pulled down and it’s now all over the web. Rumors abound, but it appears that the service was preparing to offer the first single, “Calgary,” on the site and in the “Botch of the Year,” threw the entire album up instead.

Prevailing logic dictates that they should just release the album and garner any sales that they can today. The longer a record is held off, the less it will earn due to piracy and lack of interest so Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar family, if you’re reading this: GET THE ALBUM OUT NOW SO PEOPLE WILL BUY IT AND YOU WON’T LOSE A SHIT TON OF MONEY.

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