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.

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