Good news: Kanye's streaming that fancy album-listening party we somehow didn't get invited to

The music blogosphere has been filling up with reports today of a fancy, super-exclusive listening party being held in Wyoming tonight by rapper Kanye West, reports we’ve watched with studied objectivity during all the times when we weren’t walking out to check our mailboxes this afternoon, just because, no reason, why, what have you heard? Amid tales of luxury airliners, “Wyoming”-branded swag, and all sorts of other fancy shmancy things we honestly couldn’t possibly care about, really, because we’re just in this for the music, there’s been a lot of speculation about what sort of tracks West—who’s been promising a slate of new albums of late—is getting ready to unleash.
The assumption, though, was that whatever new songs Kanye released today were going to be exclusively heard by the glorious shining wonderful privileged perfect heralds at the party, tapped by King Ye to bring word back to the unwashed and exiled masses—at least as soon as they finished digesting whatever fancy hors d’oeuvres a guy like Kanye might serve at a party like this. (Probably shrimp, right? We’re imagining some kind of bacon-covered shrimp.) But lo and behold, the seafood-denied plebes have caught a break, with West announcing that he’ll be streaming the event over the internet, allowing us all to peer in like a bunch of Dickensian fucking orphans with our noses pressed up against the window.