Howard acted like an idiot on that segment. He's under the impression CD cost $30 million to make. He samples each song for about 10 seconds with Robin downing them in the background. They didn't even get passed the silly intro on Better before skipping to CITR.
Seemed they just wanted to bury the record.
Not really. Howard just wasn't going to listen to large snippets of any song. He doesn't for any album unless the artist/group is actually ON the show. They played "The Day That Never Comes" by Metallica when it came out and talked over it while it was on in the background. Howard said, it sounded good, and you get the point. The following day listeners e-mailed about how harsh Robin was for no reason and Howard completely agreed. Robin may have bashed it, without real reason, but Howard didn't.