The thread is a little misleading.  At the most, only 170K actually listened to every single song.  Most had no more than 225K listens.  CD got 800K+ by being the song that plays automatically when people go to the page, no other song has more than 500K and only 4 songs had more than 300K.  It's a pretty good indication that people were curious enough to want to listen and weren't impressed enough by what they heard to keep listening.

I have a PS3 and it's been great.  No problems at all with it.  I'm sure it does things that I haven't even thought about yet.

No, it's hard to accept that what fans are calling a cluttered mess has more interesting guitar parts than the only (if the record still stands) 2 albums by the same band to be number 1 and 2.  It's ok that this guy likes it...that's actually easy to accept.  It's even ok that he thinks it's more interesting on guitar than UYI is.  He's as entitled to his opinion as the rest of us are...he's no more qualified than most of us are (in fact I'd argue less qualified than most of us are) to make a comparison between the 2 since we are much more intimately familiar with both pieces than he is.

The fans that prefer the new band (not to mention the fans that prefer the old band) can't even agree on liking it.  That's a pretty telling tale...far more damning than anything I could say or some reviewer could write.  If the people that desperately want the album to succeed can't agree on what songs are good and what songs aren't (though almost every one of them will admit there are some good and some bad ones), how do you think the rest of the world is going to view the album?  If we aren't collectively blown away by anything on the album...

Thanks Neemo - I actually had better things to do than worry about GnR.  A lot of fun, sun, alcohol, and relaxation...just enough to hold me over until I go to Ft Lauderdale for Christmas.  I ran up about $900 in bar charges alone.