Yeah, even though it's 2 small market teams I'd prefer to see this over the Red Sox. I'm sick of them & their 86 years or whatever. Shut up, they won it already. It's a clean slate. Glad to see Cleveland whooping 'em.

This WS might be good, with 2 high powered offenses going at it. Colorado is on fire!!

Here's what I think happened Intercourse. Their target audience is too small as far as cd--buying. High School kids buy rap & hip-hop albums, college kids listen to indie music, find bands on myspace, and download singles onto their iPod. So already, they're aiming for the 25-40 crowd. Mostly men too, so slice off another half of the cd buying audience. This age group probably buys a significantly less amount of albums than the younger crowd. I think back to high school, it wouldn't surprise me if out of all the kids I knew well, I was the only one who bought Libertad. Back in the day, we all owned AFD.

As Neemo said, people spend their money in other ways, rent, mortgage, cars, kids, nights out, vacations etc..  Money becomes tighter even though you make alot more. Wierd I guess, but that's the way it is. Anyway, mkt'g & promo was poor for this, no radio interviews/jams when they were in my city. I'm not positive but I don't recall any big RS coverage. Poor choice in fist single.

With shows and a target audience like The Hills, Laguna Beach etc MTV has little desire for GnR.  There isn't much demand from a audience of big sunglassed, flip-flop youth.  MTV alone plays very little video's & their sister channels mostly leaves for rap. VH1 classic was mentioned, and Fuse. That isn't going to sell 2 million records.

To be fair, I think the OP was asking will GnR's first album have alot of sales out of curiousity, then the second one slip due to lessened interest. I think we all know it's useless right now to talk about GnR's 2nd album, when CD isn't in sight.  If CD ever comes out, I think it'd sell similar to Linkin Parks last release sales-wise. I don't know exactly what it sold but I'd guess CD about 500,000-800,000. Maybe 1 mil.

I don't think changing the statistics for Gold, Platinum etc will be done. Instead tracking of (legal) downloads will be kept (1 million downloads etc)

Yeah, I have to admit I thought the Giants would tank it this year. A lame duck coach, young QB, veterans who are outspoken. It really could have gone either way. But they all stepped it up this year & fight. Also credit goes out to the coach for loosening it up a little this year & joking around with the players a little more. Not many people adapt like that, I always pictured Coughlin as pretty stubborn & a "My way or the Highway" type of guy.