After spending so much money on the album the label has two choices in today's music industry.

1. Spend a shitload in advertising and promotion to get mediocre sales.
2. Do little to no promotion and get mediocre sales.

Albums don't sell anymore.  Plain and simple.  They'll certainly never get back what was put into production.  I mean $13 million.  If the label makes $2 profit on every unit sold, they need the record to sell at least 6.5 million copies.  If they pump $2 million into an advertising campaign, that's even more money that will never be realized.  On top of everything, the album still needs to be pressed and mass produced, then delivered to record stores.  I have no idea how much a production run would cost, but I would imagine it's not cheap.  Including all overhead charges the album may need to sell 8 million copies just to break even.  That's not including promotion.  From a financial perspective, it's probably in the label's best interest to not even bother releasing the album.

Well, I think one of the music sites could've plucked this one off mygnr and the other picked it up from the site that did the plucking. 

In any event, Axl may be a lot of things, but a Marketing major he is not.  Leave it up to the pros, sir.  This could be the album of the year and we don't need someone who hasn't released an album in 15 years telling guys who do it everyday how to do it.   A lot has change in the music industry since The Spaghetti Incident and I'm sure Axl isn't the answer to the promotion woes of the music industry.  If he was, he'd have a completely different position at Universal.

I had two done at different times when I was in high school.  I was awake for all of it (the Doc used local anesthetic) and the second one hurt far more than the first because I don't think he waited for the area to completely deaden.  They weren't infected or anything, I just had to get them out because they were pushing my gums up into my top wisdom teeth, which was hurting a bit.  Anyway, I'm not a fan of getting teeth pulled.  The dude used a chisel and pliers in my mouth and had to put his leg on the dentist chair to get enough leverage to pull them out.  Terrifying!

What is a person going to do with $3 quadrillion?  Buy earth?

I'm half on the fence about these claims.  It's a natural disaster for god's sake.  Why should other people have to pay because you choose to live in a city that's below sea level.  It's one thing to get insurance settlements for what you've lost and to claim personal damages and everything, but it's another to take advantage of the system.

The track certainly did not stand the test of time.  As mentioned, when we were younger we thought it was great, but the rant comes off as immature and lame now.  It's just telling people to fuck off and suck dick.  No fun in that... it could've been far more creative.  Take a lesson from Wesley Willis.

The music was fantastic though.  It's a shame.