I would like to see the bandanna back, I think it could still probably work with the braids.

Axl is also pretty iconic for the bandanna (like Slash with a Top Hat) so it would be cool to see it again.

Whilst I'm cool with him wearing the bandanna again - I certainly hope he doesn't ever dust off those white lyrca bike shorts again or else I will be forced to call the fashion police!

I have posted the footage of this into the download section.

As for the rare stuff I would say:

Box Sets like:

The Top Hat Collection Vol.1
The Top Hat Collection Vol.2

There were only 500 of each of these produced.  I bought Vol.2 about 4 years ago off ebay - even then I think I paid about $400 for it (rip off for what it is but what the hell when your collecting).  I have since seen Vol.2 once for sale at eil where it was about $500+ (which was quite cheap given the prices they normally charge).  I also saw that they sold a Vol.1 at some point as they have a pic of it on their website as sold - but who knows when that was.  Besides these times I can only recall seeing one or the other on ebay a couple of other times over say the last 7 years - each time it looked like the box set was incomplete as there were some stuff missing - so you couldn't even really count those times.

There are a couple of other TSI promo items that are pretty rare.  One was a CD in a limited numbered metal shaped case (only 1000) - one came up for sale recently which is only the second one I had seen sell in about the last 5-7 years.  There is also 2 Italian promo items of a Box of Spaghetti and a can of tomatoe/spaghetti sauce - all labeled with GN'R logos etc (its real spaghetti and tomote paste inside).  I finally bought both these last year.  This was the first time I had seen these for sale and I only know of one other person that has both items plus another guy that has one of them.

There are a couple of Aussie box sets of a UYI cassette and Coma t-shirt, plus some others with Cassingle and tour posters that I haven't seen come up for sale since they were released.

(I check ebay ever day - sad isn't it - so when I say they haven't come up for sale Im usually pretty certain of it - at least on ebay anyhow.  I also regularly check heaps of other online sites like eil,netsounds,GEMM etc etc).

Then there are things like test pressing and acetates.  There is a blue Welcome to the Jungle test pressing, a yellow Nightrain test pressing.  I have seen only the blue one for sale once and 2 of the yellow pressings come up for sale.  I also know there is a black uncut paradise city picture disc test pressing - I saw it was sold on eil at some point years ago, but have never seen another for sale.  Usually with test pressing there are about say 5-20 pressed, so there should be a couple of others floating around.

Then there are other more comon test pressings - like the uncut Sweet Child O Mine picture disc and say the white Paradise City uncut picture disc - I would say these are rarer than a LLAS.  You see them up for sale a couple of times a year, but nowhere near as often as the LLAS.

It's always fu#*king HOT!

So far the forcast for Chrissy day here in Perth is 38 degrees (that's about 100 degrees farenheit for those that talk in Imperial measurements).  It's the same every year - although usually even hotter.

I suppose it's a good excuse though to rehydrate yourself with copious amounts of fluid throughout the day.

But I think it would be cool to have a white Christmas one year.

I was just talking to someone about this the other day.

I think in most cases it is the same.  If the person that sold the CD didn't burn a copy or download the songs onto their ipod/computer first for themselves then I agree with what you say Monkeychow.  But, I think most people actually do keep a copy in some form.

I have a mate that just sold his share in a second hand CD store locally here.  They were doing pretty well from what I understand and business was continuing to grow.  They would bascially buy up big lots of CD's when they came up for sale on ebay or various places, recase most of them then sell em for about $10.

I think quite a lot of their stock came from people that would be quitting all their CD's in one big lot - most probably coz they have put them onto their computer/ipods etc and then thought "I know I will get some cash back".

I look at my brother in law - he has probably over 1,000 CD's.  But last Christmas my sister bought him an Ipod so he spent about a month putting all the music onto his computer and ipod and now has stored all the CD's away in boxes.  Presumably he will probably flog them off at some point because now they are just taking up space in his garage.

So whoever eventually buys his CD doesn't contribute anything to the artist, they just pay a clip to the second hand retailer and my brother in law.

I think as russtcb said - these days second hand CD sales are more generated from the fact that people have saved the music electronically and so wanna get some money back rather than simply not liking the album anymore and getting rid of it.