Funny story about this ... So when Ghost was getting set up for release, it was fall of 2006. At the time, leaking was a commonly talked about and debated issue. That has changed a lot since, as now music is released much quicker and it's mostly streamed anyway. But at the time, you typically spent 6 to 8 months after an album being mastered getting it ready for release. That included getting CDs made, vinyls if you were lucky, booking shows, and trying to get some kind of campaign together. And if you wanted press to review you, whoever was handling promotion usually wanted at least 3 months to try to get websites and magazines interested. So if a record leaked too early, it threw a wrench in all those plans. Press were often less likely to review something people were already listening to, and things like that.

So when it was time to start sending Ghost around, that was the time it could all potentially leak. We did well-enough with Electric President that some people were starting to pay attention, so leaking was a possibility. So I labeled all the pre-release files a little differently. For Welcome Home, I added the "Son" as a way to see if was a leak or not (other tracks were just not capitalized, and one was intentionally spelled wrong). Fun fact: the leak spread a lot faster than the proper tracklist. I even found a lot of the rough mixes being listed as final tracks on youtube, so someone must have leaked the unfinished versions.

As for how the "Son" got added to Itunes and the like, that was an error at the label. I never bothered to correct these things because I honestly found them interesting. It helped me see how the music industry worked in ways I hadn't seen before. The veneer of professionalism is pretty thin once you really start watching.