Whole New Album Free On The Web

Is this the future already, turning up in our email boxes and on our screens? Neil Young's new album, Living With War, is at the moment free online on both the album's blog and the album's webpage. It goes to digital retailers on May 2nd, and to stores "in early May." No indication of how long they will be giving it away...

Evidently we don't pay enough attention to the music world, as we have no idea if other albums have been launched the same way. (And in the library we haven't heard a note yet. Library staff can't listen to audio on staff machines.)