An Interesting Question

I'm faced with people's desire to hear new music and my own desire to share it . Looks like a no brainer but consider these two examples. Weezer had quite an experiment during Maladroit where we just kept posting songs to see what people thought. Now, granted the songs that we had at the time were more musically selfish. It may be hard to judge, but would everyone have been better served if they heard nothing but the final recordings?

Another example is "Nothing Compares 2 U" originally by Prince and later by Sinead O'Connor who I believe did more justice to it. If I had heard the original, would I have liked her version as much? Feel free.