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Nope, it's all fuckin' gone. All my school papers, songs I composed on FL Studio, mp3s, videos, roms, MAFF CHAT LOGS, everything I've put on the C: drive of my computer for the last two years is gone forever. Is this destined to become my "Can you burn CDs without a CD burner" moment? Like, "Sensei John Kreese, he's the guy who didn't know Recovery means Delete Everything, lol." Maybe all the Apple geeks are right about this shit. Fuck you Microsoft, fuck you Compaq and fuck you The Simpsons for making fun of Mac users who have the right idea. TWO HUNDRED THIRTY BILLION DOLLAR MARKET CAP AND THEY CAN'T MAKE ONE SINGLE PRODUCT THAT ISN'T A FROTHING BAG OF SHIT.

BACK TO THIS AGAIN, reportedly Best Buy paid $14 million for 1.6 million copies of the album. As Best Buy have been the ones handling all the promotion for the album, apparently it already is profitable.

He didn't even have to compare his opponent to bin Laden this time. Truly it's a kinder, gentler nation.

Although I'll take Manson over Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Staind, Adema, Puddle of Mudd, Default, or Chevelle any day. Except for comedy purposes.

I'M NOT A SLAAAAAAAAAAAAVE TO A GOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDD THAT DOESN'T EXIIIIIIIIIIIIST I'M NOT A SLAAAAAAAAAAAVE TO A WOOOOORLD THAT DOESN'T GIVE A SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT Sorry, it never did much for me. The "Sweet Dreams" cover is still great.

Fred Phelps once went 7 weeks without eating and got down from 260 to about 140. I wish I had that willpower. I guess Christ's love really is a powerful force!

"Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback. Which category does this win? ALL OF 'EM!

Ice-cold Ice?

Wal-Mart would have guaranteed more sales. I bet Best Buy just offered a better deal. Besides, they say "fuck" once on the album and that doesn't fly in The House That Sam Built.

Well I think she's pretty rad, but I don't know what to tell you here. There's not really a lot to "get" with Taylor Swift, ya know? Either you think she's totally adorable and endearing or you don't. Not a whole lot more to it than that. Is T-Swift about to become a hipster cause célèbre the way Kelly Clarkson was a few years ago? Just warn me now so I can prepare.

Remember how popular the claim that "rock is dead" was back in '97? I seem to recall that Marilyn Manson was a big proponent of this, and pledged that his next album (later to be titled Mechanical Animals) would be a Bowie-style glam revival. And then, by 2000, rock was "back" and MM returned to his trademark Shitty Nu-Metal. I don't regret that period, though. Nu-metal doesn't quite have the cultural resonance of hair metal (probably because it understandably never took hold with the female music-buying public), so it's not as ripe for parody, but I swear to you it's five times more hilarious.

She's a teenage girl who writes her own songs. Teenage girls love country music but they don't have anyone who sings songs for them, about them and really knows what they're going through. Until now. Now they have Taylor Swift.

The talk of this album as a financial black hole is really overstated. The purpose of the Greatest Hits album released in 2004 was to recoup the expenses of Chinese Democracy, and it worked pretty well (Axl didn't wanted that album released, nor did Slash or Duff. One would think that was Axl releasing records on a regular schedule they'd me more amenable to his desire for them not to release it. Thus, we can assume that Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits would not exist if not for the long wait for the new album. And for that reason I count the money made from Greatest Hits as a profit on Chinese Democracy.) I wonder who released the first compilation titled "Greatest Hits." That's a name that has stood the test of time.

She's from Wyomissing, PA. I knew a really hot girl from Wyomissing once. She dated two of my friends. She was not attracted to me. It hurt.

1 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJMG 443,559 808S & HEARTBREAK 2 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 257,047 FEARLESS 3 GUNS N' ROSES GEFFEN 255,341 CHINESE DEMOCRACY Ouch?

Something about this sentence comes off as really hilariously dumb and idealistic to me. ONE: Thinking Kanye fucking West is the kind of Capital-A Artiste who makes records for himself, not money or fame. TWO: The ludicrousness of the idea that Kanye, king attention whore, would ever pass up the chance for recognition. THREE: "Man, my mom just died and I broke up with my fiancee. I'm gonna get over it by recording myself singin' like T-Pain, but nobody's ever going to hear it." Stupid Pitchfork.

I'll let you know when I finish watching it on Google video!

Rare owns the rights to Killer Instinct.

It's being speculated that he wants to buy it just to liquidate it. In which case, if he sells it off piece by piece, there's gotta be some franchise (or IP, should i say) we can all pitch in and pick up. Marble Madness? Primal Rage? Or maybe...just maybe...dare I say...REVOLUTION X?

You don't like discussion of movie grosses, I thought maybe you didn't like hearing about album sales either.

"Shackler's Revenge," "Scraped" and "If the World" should have been left on the cutting room floor. The first is lame nu-metal, the second sounds like "If It Ain't Broke, Break It" from Bat Out of Hell III and the third just doesn't work.

what's going to be hilarious is that the album will probaly be comprised entirely of songs we've never heard... It's from the same thread where Banky and I sparred over his posting a Photoshopped picture of Axl's face on Ali G's body.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/kanye-...003918220.story Oh man I hope Bryant the Bub doesn't see this post!

I just called into Observer Radio. Listen for my terrible voice and stammering as I inquire about Rick Rude and the WCW title while trying not to wake my family.