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#17271 Re: The Garden » Lost my job yesterday... » 943 weeks ago
Damn dude that sucks. I guess everyone is feeling it these days.
The Republicans love the word "trickle down profits", well it's gonna trickle down alright... unemploment, bankruptcy, welfare...
How 'bout that free market YEAH!
#17272 Re: The Garden » U.S. Debt Too Big for National Debt Clock » 943 weeks ago
...Come on Zillion!
ROLL!
#17273 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy release date? » 943 weeks ago
I don't think the website will have much of anything. When its announced, that will be on there obviously.
You have valid complaints, but none of what is going on is surprising. There was never going to be "in your face" promotion for this. The talk over the years about commercials, huge billboards in cities, huge grassroots(hello street teams!) campaign,etc. were just pipe dreams.
We're weeks away from this, and there's been not one peep. Is that normal? Of course not. This is coming in almost below radar. If Axl wants to release this beast but do it without drawing a ton of attention to the record, I have no problem with it.
And see that's where some issues arise.
Axl wanting this album to just drop, seems alot like him. This is a man that announces stuff or reacts to stuff at the very last minute, or after the fact. Never ahead of the game.
I also wonder if the album is THAT bad. If they are not proud of the material, which by their attitude the last 10 years, all signs point to yes. Otherwise we'd gotten an album by 1998, called "2000 Intentions". They might know it's 'so so'.
Then there's the flipside. The album might be GREAT. But due to DUMB ASS fans who, because it's Shackler's Revenge or Oh My God or Silkworms, it must suck because it's industrial-influenced. Which is not the case. Dated, yes, suck? We'll see. But like with Oh My God & the 2006 Press Release before it, they are softasses who can't handle even the slightest ridicule, and the album could be great, but they'd hold back because "they're skeeered".
But if "this beast" is released under the radar with little to no promotion, not a shock, it'll be a footnote to quite possibly the biggest cluster/mindfuck in the history of rock albums. Why, after all these years, all the battles, all the wait, all the big big big, all the epic-ness of the whole fuckin' thing, all the drama... that this album just drops and within a blink of an eye it's over.
Head scratcher of the century.
#17274 Re: The Garden » My fellow prisoners... » 943 weeks ago
I've actually heard Brad Sherman speak a few times directly on radio, and it seems to really be against any form of a bailout bill. Mainly because of the fact his office gets calls all day long (like everyone's) with American citizens totally against the bill, because they don't see the bailout as fair to the taxpayer. What Rep. Sherman doesn't understand is that the only DOUCHE BAGS that call representative, congressman, senator office's are the far-end extreme of either party. People who "don't get it" on a regular basis, for whatever reason.
But on the 'fear mongering', that is absolutely true. There was an attitude presented in the country that a stock market crash was inevitable if that bill wasn't passed by Monday... nothing happened. Life went on as normal. People went to work, people went to school, nothing changed.
#17275 Re: Guns N' Roses » The "Best Buy" leaks » 943 weeks ago
Agreed. There's no way. It' be a bad marketing move. Hell they could put out a 10-disc mega set, and they are still going to do a one-disc'er' that will be economically priced at $9.99
Best Buy, even though Wal-Mart won't have it most likely, tries to price themselves to compete directly with Wal-Mart in the media market, which leaves prices VERY low, usually the lowest.
#17276 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy release date? » 943 weeks ago
Acquiesce is right. The Best Buy exclusive means - within the United States - not in reference to the actual album Chinese Democracy.
My guess is it'll hit store shelves Sunday, November 23rd, non-U.S. Monday-Tuesday, November 24th or 25th.
The album will then be available in all stores (your local record store, Circuit City, F.Y.E., etc.) the following week.
I still hope it's a set. I know it's a fanboy dream, but I hope they just drop like an entire box set of the CD sessions, leave it, and start talking reunion.
#17277 Re: Guns N' Roses » The "Best Buy" leaks » 943 weeks ago
Interesting news. I still think it's odd (well, not really knowing Axl) that nothing has come out of the GN'R camp.
Too many news sources, too many things going on. At this point I think Thanksgiving week is pretty close in stone, that we've ever gotten. Deals seem to be done, and Gould is playing tracks for managers... it's a done deal.
What it'll actually be, it's price, and what follows is now the question.
#17278 Re: Guns N' Roses » Information on Shackler's Revenge » 943 weeks ago
Axl and a Rick Rubin would never work.
Rick Rubin would look Axl square in the face and say "it sucks. do it again, do it better"... Rubin would be let go the next day.
#17279 Re: The Garden » My fellow prisoners... » 943 weeks ago
That Meghan McCain is HOT... jesus.
#17280 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Former Guns N' Roses Members Form Guns of Destruction (Updated) » 943 weeks ago
How pathetically said is it, that Tracii Guns, who was in a band if at lost modest success in the late 80's, LA Guns, has to constantly whore himself out for the entire THREE MONTHS he was in the band.
Wow.
