Jeez. 1. If Rolling Stone gives you 4 stars, you put it on the sticker. It may well be that it only got reviewed in the first place because Ghostly can afford a super-kick-ass publicist, it may well be that the reviewer didn't have any context to judge, but if you get 4 stars it goes on the CD. If for NO OTHER REASON THAT IT MAKES THE BIG TIME RACK JOBBERS THINK THEY GOT SOMETHING THAT WILL SHIFT UNITS.
Ghostly is run as a business. You can't fault them for doing what any well-run record label would do. 2. Rolling Stone may be a lot of things -- chief among them, mostly irrelevant -- but I think it's dumb to call the magazine racist. 3. Hostility on a mailing list is bullshit.