Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Beck plays a joke on his fans

This seems to be Beck's stab at playing an Andy Kaufman-esque joke on his fans and the music industry at large. At the height of his fame and artistic reputation, he slaps together a collection of random recordings that were justifiably never included on previous albums.I suppose true fans appreciate the glimpse this gives us of the artist in development, but it reminds me more of those embarrassing audio tapes your parents made of you as a kid. "Geez did I really say that?" Lucky for him, Beck's not an easily embarrassed sort, but don't fall for his cleverly-disguised prank. There's a reason the words "pathetic" and "manure" are in the title.