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You don't think the quote section is just a little much?

It is a nice set-up, I agree. Wouldn't you think that playing a vinyl record through thousands of dollars worth of high-tech equipment ruins the perceived "purity of vinyl"? Besides which, does it really make sense to listen to an album that was recorded digitally on vinyl? I understand why someone would prefer Beatles or Zeppelin albums of other Great Records Of The LP Era in their original format. But anything that features drum loops in half the songs, that's gotta stay on CD.

I don't even know why UYI posted that. The Brutus Beefcake to Axl's Hogan thinks Chinese Democracy is some hot shit? Who would have thought?

This doesn't help.

OH SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT

By the way the album is probably going to debut on the charts at #2 with 300K sold following Kanye's 450-500.

The great thing about Chinese Democracy is that everyone has an opinion on it. If this were just some Aerosmith or Ozzy album, you'd never see the Incs and Czechs and Edwin McaPhistos of the world in here (if Czech's reading this, he can replace the two aforementioned acts with Ratt or Enuff Znuff or whoever else he sees as GNR's artistic peers). But because it's such a big deal, every music fan has to put in their two cents, from people who never liked GNR in the first place declaring that "it won't be any good without Slash" from experts like Agent of Oblivion and Black Lushus expressing the unfounded belief that "It'll come out, but when it does it won't have any of the songs that you've heard before" to JAxlMorrison and Use Your Illusion exceeding any band advocacy seen on this board since the days of Choken One's Keith Caputo obsession. If you always thought GNR was shit, yeah, you're not going to see this as anything more than WCW entrance music or BUTT rock or sounds like Nickelback or whatever. Just remember that he didn't take 15 years to make an album that would go in the canon alongside Loveless and FutureSex/LoveSounds. He took 15 years because he's really lazy and he just didn't feel like finishing the record.

I remember what was on Raw that night. The Warrior's last appearance. That was really a show that proved how dumb it was to tape 4 shows in one night. "The Warrior has been no-showing events, so he's suspended unless he posts a bond before the events...but oh he's here tonight, that's fine, but after that he's suspended." That was sad. I knew he wouldn't be back. My brother had a dream the night before BATB that Hogan would be the third man. I found it unlikely, but it did make sense. So when he walked out an leg-dropped Savage, it wasn't really a "holy shit WHAT" reaction but more of a "wow, they really are going to do this" reaction. Hell of an angle, but it set a bad example for promoters in that it made them think that whenever a huge babyface turned heel it would do big business. Thus you had the ridiculous Goldberg heel turn and later the more entertaining but also more damaging Austin heel turn. But man, did the Hogan thing work. Did it ever.

You must be a Canuck. We don't even have HMV over here!

That's a hell of a drop in Simpson character draft pick quality after round 1.

I never took you for a cross-dresser, Inc.

You may remember that even after it was clear he only entered that mod auction to fuck with Mike's eBay account (as opposed to his earlier assumed intention of fucking with the board; either way his original bids should have been rejected, but our asleep-at-the-wheel owner just didn't bother to stop him), he still was not banned from the board for several days because "Beaniekids" still hoped that Paul would rescind the negative feedback, thus creating the hilarious situation of a message board owner becoming a slave to a troll. It was great.

Paul never came close to buying TSM, he just makes ominous threats of buying it, or claims that Mike has been sending him e-mails bitching about the mod staff, or lies about being a "silent third partner" with Mike and Mole.

I meant to mention the name-on-album-cover overkill. I think there's room for "Chinese Democracy" on there, but they didn't need the band name on the side strip. I'm sure most everyone knows what "Chinese Democracy" is, and if they don't, well, they're going to be purchasing it from Best Buy either in the "Guns N' Roses" section in the CD aisle or from a big cardboard display that says "GUNS N' ROSES CHINESE DEMOCRACY" in huge letters. I just don't like album covers that don't tell you what the album's called. That logo on the bottom right is just worthless, though. It's unnecessary, and I liked their old logo better.

People who can't tell the difference between a slash ( / ) and a backslash ( \ ). I first noticed this in high school, people reading web addresses as "yahoo dot com backlash mail..." and I thought, well that's interesting. Then I got to college and realized that people were making the same mistake. That perplexed me because with my high school and college being in different regions of PA, that meant obviously this was a widespread phenomenon. The thing that bothers me isn't so much that some people are making this mistake, because I can see the confusion. It's that EVERYONE, I mean every single person who has ever had to describe out loud the punctuation mark they see before their eyes, since I was 17 years old, calls it a backslash. I have NEVER met anyone my own age who calls it anything but a backslash and that means that I AM THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. The worst was that a couple of months ago, during one of our Secret Life chats, this actually made it into a freakin' Applebees commercial, which means all the young teen girls who tune into the continuing misadventures of Amy Juergens are being indoctrinated with this poor grammar, and when they grow up, they'll teach their kids, and the cycle continues...

All of that could be done without Axl's involvement.

Our CE folder also doesn't have a hilarious persecution complex.

Haha, I bet he still didn't want to release it. How else to explain the awful liner notes, no video, no promotion, and apparent feud with managers?

The fact that the wwe.com front page asks "What might this mean for his Survivor Series WWE Chmpionship Triple Threat Match tonight?" means this screams work to me.

I give you the worst newspaper editorial ever written:

Don't forget XxMariaSantosxX

Judgment isn't very good. I feel sorry for anyone who actually buys it. And I'm a big Castlevania fan, but this ain't anything more than a rental. Even for $20 there are better ways to spend your money. And all that Maria stuff is too weird. "Loli-con" (I just learned this phrase a couple of months ago, and I'd give anything to unlearn it) shit is something that's supposed to be confined to the deepest, darkest corners of the internet, not in the fine games of Konami Industry Co., Ltd. Like, why, Japan, why? Why do so many Japanese games and anime sexualize 12-year-old girls? Can anyone explain this to me?

Anyone who doesn't think it's necessary for TSM to confront its pitiful hatred of all women needs to reevaluate their message board priorities!

THE GOD HAS SPOKEN