I'll tell you what prompted it...Gene's gigantic ego has been hurt by the fact that Axl has done nothing in 15 years and is going to sell more records than his last album did.

Any time any attention could be taken away from these guys...they will say something that puts them right back in front of our faces.

If you were about to tour in the US and had to compete with GN'R in the coming months, wouldn't you feel a little pressure?

Wow...what a downer...

I appreciate the idea of prosecuting company's that buy the resources to sell to us, but I don't think it will work. I think Jimmy Carter went through a similar situation. He stopped selling (or was it buying?) lumber to a consumer out of ethical and moral reasons.

The result? In an economy that was already in bad shape, it cost the lumber industry many jobs, and caused many companies to shut down permanently.

Carter was considered a bad president, people lost jobs and the economy got even worse. I feel as thought something similar would happen in this case. When it comes right down to it, people really only care about buying things as cheap as they can get them.

yeah...this is really tough to judge...as russtcb points out...

In a time where too many music fans feel like they don't have to pay for their music or buy one song off of an album through itunes, the situation is set up for the album sales to fail miserably...

It's just such a different time compared to the last time this band released an album.

Oh I wanted to also say thank you to the people who run this board...for without whom I would have been cast away from the site that shall not be named...meaning I would have no Gn'R family.

Thanks you guys for bustin' your asses (even you Lofton, lol) and making sure this site stayed alive after the original one disappeared.

You said it yourself, the site changed, but the people were the same. I've been reading posts from a lot of you for years.

Thanks for being my Gn'R family!!!