Is this the best the "scene release" groups can do? Less than a week to go and there's no proper release, just a few miscellaneous songs dropped here and there to tease? If they're trying to punish the GNR fan base for some supposed disrespect, then they're just playing into Best Buy/Universal's hands.

At this point I don't even give a fuck if it leaks or not. I've got my copy ordered from Best Buy already, so I'll just wait for it to show up in the mail.

Just based on the name, I'd say that "Thyme" is likely "There Was A Time."

Looking back at the Kerrang article which was the source of several of these lost tunes, they did mention Prostitute and This I Love as well. So some of the others may have been real songs, but who knows if they had complete lyrics and vocals recorded, or if they were just work-in-progress instrumentals.

And don't forget "never mind who you gave head"

Do they really need three guitarists? Let Bumble do the leads and Fortus on the rhythm and they're good to go. And does anyone else think it's strange that Josh Freese announced that he was leaving the NIN tour at the end of December? Wouldn't that be ironic if they replaced all his drum parts on the album, then brought him back for the GNR tour?

I'm pretty sure the review copies have been out there for a week or two (at least for RS and a few other major publications), and are heavily copy protected - resulting in the "skippy" leaks we heard a couple of weeks ago. Still, I'm amazed that there's less than two weeks to go and a proper scene release hasn't surfaced.