This might be an odd or old thought to everyone else....but does anyone know what the time limit is on the Best Buy exclusive?

Is it the situation where BB gets a window where they only have it - and then the album goes public to other stores?

IF that's the case....then what about this.....the best buy presale money is used to pay back the debt to the label or record companys or whatever....

Other than GNR acknowlging the release on it's website and so on - Axl doesn't do any promotion of it to push those sales...because they are already locked in...however many that BB has purchased...and the bulk of that money is paying the debts involved.

But Axl has also put up substantial amounts of his own dollars into the project....when the window closes....Axl begins promotion of the album in the 'normal' way - gives a few interviews - maybe release a special edition or something to all other stores. Then he gets his own money paid back to maximum effect. And you get a double bang in sales - the diehards go to best buy - and people attracted from that - but he picks up all the casual sales...

I could be totally full of shit...it just came into my head as one explaniation for the whole thing playing out the way it is.

THEN AGAIN...maybe Axl is just done with the media and we need to ask ourselves why he would choose to prostitute himself...and realise he perhaps isn't and that's why he doesn't bang the drum.

Master plan or just not into promotion? Time will tell i guess!

My rats arent bothered by it. They do like listening to Electric Wizard and watching the Shield though.

I'll play it on my Mum's dog and see what happens.....