when it leaks i'm having it like a shot.
but when i buy the original, that's when i sit in the conservatory, shut off from the wife & kids, open a vintage bottle of red wine & smoke my big fat cuban siglo iv,  i'll  pop the cd in, read the cd booklet & just enjoy the 'proper' moment.

madagas wrote:

as for radio play, who gives a fuck? How many times did you hear the Eagles single before their record came out? Gnr is getting decent airtime. Over at the Velvet Rope, someone was saying that big releases like this generally don't play their best single first. They know they are going to get big sales the first week so you hold what you consider to be your best single until sales begin to dip. Sounds like a good plan to me. In the end, this record isn't going to live and die with radio play. Considering the cost to record it, it will be purely judged by sales.

i agree madagas...to an extent...they definately need a good gameplan to sustain the album's longevity on the charts and on radio so they can generate interest for the average person...once they instill that interest then it may pan out into a sale

so in my mind radio play does matter, if people dont hear it they wont have the inclination to buy it, but the theory that they are holding bach their big single makes sense to do a big push later on