I agree with James' posts in here. This has Snakes on a Plain written all over it. But god I wish it was Cthulhu, that would be a badass movie.

Man, I don't really dig Linkin Park but are we throwing around the "emo" label that blindly now?

Marketing "pros" usually don't know their head from their ass. I can understand Axl being protective of how something that's clearly meant so much to him and will mean so much to his career is going to ultimately be released. If the record labels knew how to market their properties and take advantage of what little audience they have left, they wouldn't be drowning as fast as they are. Axl may not be a marketing genius, but in our day and age things generally become a hit because we're told they already are. Very rarely does that built-in hype fail, and when it does it's because the property didn't have a chance at commercial success to begin with. People buy the albums they're told to, they like the songs they're supposed to that are played on radio the most often. That's why Nickelback and Daughtry can pull in those numbers. That's why turgid shit like Transformers can gross half a billion. Transformers was a hit before it even opened. Daughtry was a rock star before his first single. If Chinese Democracy is shoved so far up people's fucking ass that it's all they can see, hear, and think of leading up to its release, then it will be a success. Since a Use Your Illusion level of hype can't possibly exist on its own, they need to create one. People are dumb fucks, they'll buy what they're told. VR's label got cocky and didn't think they needed to market Libertad as aggressively as Contraband. Look what happened. There's no reason Libertad wasn't an even bigger hit. And don't say "It didn't really have material for singles, it didn't have a 'Slither'." For Chrissakes, "American Man" could have been the new "Slither," it only takes the right exposure and whoever the label feels they need to dump their money and resources in to push on radio and TV at that time. Clearly VR wasn't the label's priority when Libertad was released. For Geffen as well as for Axl, Chinese Democracy needs to be that priority.

I've believed this "rumor" from the start, I don't see what's so hard to grasp. It doesn't mean we're any closer to getting the album.

I still think that list is booty shakin'.