If GNR does that, I'll be pissed.   I should be rewarded for wanting to have the album as soon as possible, not expected to buy it again to get some extra stuff that I would have bought given the opportunity.

I was wicked pissed when I heard Contraband had been re-released with the bonus covers.  Because of that I still haven't heard their version of No More No More, even though it's one of my favorite Aerosmith songs.

I'm fine with a Best Buy exclusive deal though, that's where I buy most of my music anyway.

The point Bumblefoot is making is simply that The Beatles spread their wings and didn't get pigeon-holed into one genre, nothing more than that.  You could make similiar arguments about Metallica.  What anyone thinks of the music is subjective.

While I agree, where his analogy loses steam is that it was the same four Beatles making both of those songs.  It would really be closer to accurate to compare Hold Your Hand to Instant Karma, or something.

I, and many other people, have said this various times over the years, but that's the biggest hurdle this album's gonna have to overcome. 

Not sounding dated to any particular time, not quality of songs,  just simply people who aren't willing to accept it (without even listening) just because it isn't the GNR they're used to.

no

It's just promotion for that movie she's doing.  She does the "20 questions" thing.  It reminded me of the time I got the Playboy with Jessica Alba on the cover.  I about threw my back out flipping through the pages looking for her pictorial, but it wasn't there.

I was pissed