I'm sure everyone has heard of this "upcoming" Guns N' Roses album. You know, the one's that been in the making for 14 long years and has cost a reported $13 million to produce? Those figures alone make it really understandable then why GN'R is so protective of their songs being leaked on the 'net. I would be, too, if the album I made cost that much. I have to make a quick ROI after all!
Anyway, the word is out that American retailer, Best Buy, snagged the exclusive rights to sell the more-than-a-decade-in-the-making album, thanks to the band's new management deal with Irving Azoff's Front Line Management, the architect behind the Eagles' Long Road out of Eden album which was released exclusively through Wal-Mart on the first year of its initial release. That album took six years to produce and sold 3.1 million copies in the United States alone, so Chinese Democracy is in good hands of someone who has been there and has done that.
Although some of the details of the deal are still being worked out, the particular kicker is this: the release date hasn't been set although sources familiar with the deal said it's before year's end, with November 25 being tossed around as the likeliest date.
Yeah, right...
Still, if the sources are right about the release date, that could put Dr Pepper in a really, REALLY tight bind since they did promise to give everyone in America (except for Slash and Buckethead) a free can of Dr Pepper if Chinese Democracy is released some time - ANYTIME! - in 2008.
I never liked Dr Pepper much and I've always been partial to Coke so I couldn't care less if, after the recent financial crisis in Wall Street, there would be a soda crisis if Dr Pepper can't fulfill the promised they made to the people.
Me, I just wanna hear Axl rock!!! If he still has it, that is...
"So faaaaar away... the album's so faaaaaar awaaaaay..."
Anyway, the word is out that American retailer, Best Buy, snagged the exclusive rights to sell the more-than-a-decade-in-the-making album, thanks to the band's new management deal with Irving Azoff's Front Line Management, the architect behind the Eagles' Long Road out of Eden album which was released exclusively through Wal-Mart on the first year of its initial release. That album took six years to produce and sold 3.1 million copies in the United States alone, so Chinese Democracy is in good hands of someone who has been there and has done that.
Although some of the details of the deal are still being worked out, the particular kicker is this: the release date hasn't been set although sources familiar with the deal said it's before year's end, with November 25 being tossed around as the likeliest date.
Yeah, right...
Still, if the sources are right about the release date, that could put Dr Pepper in a really, REALLY tight bind since they did promise to give everyone in America (except for Slash and Buckethead) a free can of Dr Pepper if Chinese Democracy is released some time - ANYTIME! - in 2008.
I never liked Dr Pepper much and I've always been partial to Coke so I couldn't care less if, after the recent financial crisis in Wall Street, there would be a soda crisis if Dr Pepper can't fulfill the promised they made to the people.
Me, I just wanna hear Axl rock!!! If he still has it, that is...
"So faaaaar away... the album's so faaaaaar awaaaaay..."
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