timely post, stu. i listened to a few of the tracks at emusic yesterday and was, to put it mildly, not impressesd. i'd heard the junior boys remix of 'sleep tonight' a few weeks ago on definitely not the opera and the only effect it had on me was to pine for the beauty of the original.
gotta say that i love, schaedenfraudically, the way the pitchfork dudes express their distaste for the whole project, in particular the dissing of owen pallet's contribution as an "audition to be Jon Brion's film-soundtrack intern".

i don't necessarily dismiss the remix in general. kcrw, for example, seemingly plays nothing but non-album versions of songs on their various shows, and their selections are usually quite stellar. but yeah, it's probably safe to say that the majority of remixes are garbage. for any one ep containing 6 or 7 remixes of a song, there may be 1 that is actually decent. and if you're not actively employed as a disc jockey, there's no excuse for owning such an ep.