By itself it is such a pathetically gay idea it astounds me.

If the memory chip was something they gave you when you physically bought something decent e.g. a CD or vinyl, the bands t-shirt, a concert ticket.  I don't know something, it might be ok. 

But to simply sell a little piece of shit like that on its own is laughable.  Oh wait I better not download this - I really want to have an idividual memory chip of each of my favourite bands.  They look really good all lined up together on my bookshelf.  I also like reading the serial number and other interesting info printed on the chip while I'm listening to the music.

He has toured it already a number of times

I agree I will not be embracing this format either - at least not legally.

They said album sales on CD dropped almost 19% last year.  I would dare say those people not buying CD's are still listening to music they are just downloading it instead of buying CD's.

If they think by offering this SD card it will fill the void of of falling CD sales and capture some of these people that are downloading they are in for a rude shock.  People switched to downloading because it's fee (ignoring itunes type things).

I know personally if I am going to pay for something I want a damn CD and a booklet and some decent packaging etc etc.  If I am not getting that then I will be looking to pick up just the songs as cheaply as possible - i.e. for free!  I don't care for their crappy SD cards they can stick em.

It's also why Azoff was trying to get cd.com and mygnr in his pocket to go with HTGTH, and from what MSL tells they succeeded.  They want to control the amount and type of information out there (I'm not saying they will succeed though), they also wanted to shut MSL up and cease his activities any way they could.  They thought they had achieved it by getting him banned from the fourms, including any talk of him by other forum members.

But it backfired and he started that blog instead.  I thought his blog was hilarious and the longer it was there the more noteriety that came from it and apparently the more people came out of the woodwork to blab to MSL about various pieces of information and dealings they had with either Universal, Azoff, the GNR camp etc.  He then continued to post this new info on his blog and things continued to snowball.

I am sure they explored legal means to try and directly stop him but when that wasn't possible (probably because that would have resulted in the outting of a mole living in Axls own house) I'm sure they looked at other ways to get the thorn out of their side, suching as complaining to google.