At least some bad versions of the game are still being distributed as recently as yesterday, the 12th. I downloaded and installed the game yesterday AM, and experienced the sound and crashing issue. I did log a support request, but have not heard back yet.
However, after reading this thread, I installed Galaxy, and the version of the game distributed through Gakaxy works fine. I was hesitant to install Galaxy earlier, since it is still in Beta phase.
It is disappointing, though, that at least some bad versions of the game are still being distributed, to people that don't use Galaxy, and this issue still needs to be addressed by the gog.com team.