If there's one thing U2 has plenty of it's confidence. And that serves Bono and company well nearly every time. The band is releasing remastered deluxe versions of its first three albums next week, but instead of hiding all those bonus tracks away due to worries that sales of the albums will suffer, U2 has made them all available at a special imeem site today. Not 30-second samples, not a handful of tracks, all of them in their entirety, with embedding not disabled.
U2 is banking on fans being so excited about the new albums that they'll buy them in all their enhanced glory even if they've heard the previously unreleased songs. That's a pretty good bet. And it just goes to show that confidence in your work and your fans can still pay off.
Here's the expanded "War" edition in its entirety:
Here's "October":
Here's "Boy":