I feel for alot of these artists who spend months and months recording and mixing an album, only to hand it over to a person who will compress the living shit out of it so it sounds loud enough for ''the modern market''

I'm glad some artists are starting to make a stand against the loudness war, the worst example was the last Metallica album (you can download a non mastered version of Death Magnetic which was used for Guitar Hero, and guess what? It sounds awesome), but there is definite clipping to heard on the new Snake and it ruins the whole thing for me.