I'm not sure that's true. If you look back at 2004, there were no official snippets until about 6-8 weeks prior to the album release in May. They put up two clips a week prior to the album release, and the CD snippets from The Times didn't come until late March/early April.
There was an early play of Irish Blood on KROQ, and this circulated quickly along with boots of the LA shows, but the studio tracks came relatively late.
I guess the single might start getting airplay from mid February onwards..
> I'm surprised no snippets from the new album have surfaced yet
> What's the deal? By this time with "You Are The Quarry" we had
> all
> heard lots of stuff