Everybody's got these subjective, pre-conceived notions about what sounds "good", or how they "like the drums to sound". How ridiculous.
Eff it.
So the cymbals sound like hyper-compressed trashcan lids? So what? You think Fridmann's deaf? Ever listen to
Soft Bulletin? That stuff is positively wacky, and it's genius.
Hell, I guess I'd want the RMS levels to be down another 3dB, but that's, like, every record I've bought in the last month, save Donald Fagen's
The Nitefly.