Inside the album you get a coupon to download high quality MP3's. Beck is the man! I can't wait to see him play at the Hollywood Bowl. The album is a classic.

I'm a recently converted vinyl enthusiast, and I was psyched to the new Beck release on vinyl. One of the really cool features, I thought, was that by purchasing the vinyl you get a code to download the digital version of the record. Well the coupon that was enclosed in the record was code-less. Extremely disappointing. The record is quite good though.

I concur with previous reviewers that the first four or five songs are just some of the craftiest songwriting out there, though my favorite tune is edging toward "Profanity Prayers". I bought on the thought that others described it "like The Information" but I don't think it really is. Just like any Beck album, very hard to categorize, compare with/to, which is a true virtue of an artist who endures. This just has confidence througout - there's not a lot of "look at me" riffs or beeps or fizzles or what have you here (like "In Rainbows", for example - the band doesn't feel a need to overwhelm with crazy sound, but simply make pure music and truly reflect who they are), but the beats are catchy, the lyrics deliver the usual mind-twisting precision and there's an undercurrent of optimism here, perhaps throwing a few shovel-fuls of dirt on the Sea Change downer... Yeah, it could be 3 tracks longer, but The Information had about 3 too many tracks. I appreciate the self-editing. A great soundtrack for just about anything... ET

Beck has so many great and unique albums, and this is one of my top picks!

Being a huge admirer of producer Danger Mouse's work (Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley, Danger Doom) and a advent Beck fan, I was absolutely flabbergasted when I heard the two would be collaborating. I was even more amazed once the revelation actually came about. Boasting ten songs of the most highly "beck-tacular", "Modern Guilt" reveals Beck at one of his most thoughtfully confessing moments. Full of references (positive ones, if I may add) to global warming, wisdom and even tackling the actuality of Deity, the album feels a little less down and more compelled. Danger Mouse's production is top-notch; familiar to his previous work but re-animated and amplified by following Beck's direction. A touching and personal record, "Modern Guilt" may not be beck at his best, but it is beck acknowledging that he can be better, not just as a musician but as a person as well.