As the work day closes and your mind is dwindling off into space, check out this YouTube user’s page. BunnyGreenhouse has taken the liberty of creating mash-up videos to every song off of G.T.’s new release, Feed the Animals (only 6 so far). This shit is insane. Bravo good sir, Bravo.

Girl Talk doesn’t waste time; the just made Feed The Animals, which was just mastered, is coming out Thursday. Yeah, this Thursday. Being made available on the Illegal Art website. Currently, MTV is reporting that Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk, is reviewing the mastered work now, and if it passes his standards, the web should have a shiny new copy of the hyper-sampled work in 2 days.

Oh fuck it, MTV does this better than I do.

“I haven’t heard the master yet, but Gregg has it and he’s reviewing it right now,” Philo T. Farnsworth, the owner of Illegal Art, told MTV News by phone on Tuesday (June 17). “If he decides something is wrong with it, well, then I guess that could hold up the release — either that or resolving some server issues. But it’s correct to say that it’ll be available on the Illegal Art Web site starting on Thursday … that’s correct as of right now.”

As luck would have it, an MTV News crew was actually with Gillis at his Pittsburgh home late Monday when he received the mastered version of Animals — according to our producer, not only does the album sound great (snippets of Kanye, Shawty Lo, Madonna and Heart — to name just a few — are sprinkled throughout), but Gillis seemed so happy with it that he asked us to decide when it should be released to the Net — our producer picked Thursday, and that’s the day you’ll be able to hear it.

“The plan was always to put it out as quickly as possible — before the physical release in September, for sure — and so that’s what we’re doing,” Philo said. “Gregg didn’t want to leak any of it early to the press; he wanted everyone to hear it, and when [the album] goes on the site it will be the first time [virtually] anyone’s gonna hear it. I mean, I’ve heard an unmastered version of it, and a few other people here have, but that’s about it. We have all been very cautious about it.

And Illegal Art’s plan will sound familiar to anyone who’s followed Radiohead’s in Rainbows or Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-V (or even Saul Williams’ The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust album): Downloaders can pay what they want for Animals, though Philo said that if they spend, say, $5 or $10, they’ll get not only the album, but FLAC files and a physical copy when they’re available.

Nah, I wouldn’t go that far… but Girl Talk is releasing their (his?) new album, Feed The Animalsin a ‘pay what it’s worth’ fashion. With the success of ‘In Rainbows and Girl Talk’s increasing popularity, I think the disk is going to blow up.

Girl Talk fans should keep their eyes on the Internet over the next few weeks, as it will be the only place to obtain his new album in the short term.

Girl Talk mainman Greg Gillis tells Billboard.com he will release “Feed the Animals,” a 55-minute album featuring more than 300 samples, in a pay-what-you want format a la Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” via his label Illegal Art’s Web site. A physical CD will available sometime in the next few months.

“This project has always been about embracing pop,” Gillis says. “I feel like the source material on this record has more in-your-face classics. Because of that, it’s more over the top.”

Gillis says “Feed the Animals” has been developed around his live set, something that’s been ever evolving over the last two years. “For the final editing process, I probably worked eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, for about 3 months,” he reports. “I worked very hard to make it sound like I didn’t work hard.”

In comparison to 2006’s acclaimed “Night Ripper,” Gillis describes “Feed the Animals” as being “smoother” while experimenting with tempos: “There are parts with edits more detailed than anything on ‘Night Ripper,’ but overall, I spent time focusing on a particular source song for longer periods of time, rather than jumping from song source to song source as quickly as possible.”

Currently, a fall tour is in the works, but Girl Talk will play sporadic headlining shows this summer, along with scheduled appearances at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party in July, as well as the Lollapalooza and All Points West festivals.