John Petrucci said he didn't hear the mistake when he listened to it. The error is so distracting that i would want the band to correct it and release the fixed track for digital download...
Me too.
I was bummed at JP's response, though not surprised. Either he heard it immediately and was like "OH #%*$& WE SENT THIS OUT LIKE THIS???" but had the PR sense not to say so in a Reddit AMA, or he was listening to different source material, like maybe he had a master track on his computer without this bug?
A third possibility is that maybe it wasn't as obvious on whatever speakers he was listening to?
In any case, yeah, I'm not sure the band will even cop to it. I mean, what are they going to do, recall all those shipped units? Of course they could offer a digital download, but it might get them embarrassing press, whereas it's never a story anyone's going to pick up as it is now.
I wish it would be fixed, but I totally get why they'd just say "too late, what can we do."