I'm also against posting waveform snapshots. (Believe it or not!)
However, I think there must be something we can do to encourage people to speak up against brickwalled music.
I honestly can't hear the difference between 320 MP3 and FLAC, but I can spot albums ruined by the loudness war, easily. The people in this thread who say they can't tell the difference, have either been lucky and avoided the really bad ones, or are just flat out lying. I'll try and post some samples later if I can figure out how to do it.. (I assume 30 second samples are allowed?)
It's true, it does mostly effect newer music (in particular the last 2 years have gotten extremely bad) however, there is even some 90's albums that have this problem. They are few and far between though.
Anyway, it's not all bad news.
http://www.gatewaymastering.com/gate...udnessWars.asp
So Guns ‘N Roses should be congratulated for choosing a more dynamic version. I honestly want to buy the CD just to support their decision. (even though I have zero interest in their music)