Best Buy Snags GUNS N' ROSES Album Exclusive
 

Best Buy Snags GUNS N' ROSES Album Exclusive

According to Billboard.com, Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer for GUNS N' ROSES decade-plus-in-the-making new album Chinese Democracy before year's end, sources close to the situation tell Billboard. Some details of the deal are still being worked out, including the release date.

The news brings a semblance of closure to the bizarre history of Democracy, which Guns N' Roses has been working on since the mid-1990s. Since then, every original member of the once mighty group has left besides vocalist Axl Rose, and millions of dollars have been spent working on the new material.

Democracy was most recently on the Interscope release schedule in March 2007. The endless delays encountered by the project reached comic levels this spring, when soft drink manufacturer Dr Pepper offered to send a free can of the beverage to "everyone in America" (excluding ex-GNR members Slash and Buckethead) if Chinese Democracy were to arrive anytime during the calendar year 2008.

In June, nine purported "mastered, finished" tracks from the album were leaked online, prompting an FBI investigation into their source. A sign Chinese Democracy was perhaps finally nearing release came in July, when the band agreed to debut new track 'Shackler's Revenge' in the video game "Rock Band 2," which hit stores earlier this month.

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Rollingstone.com is reporting:

The latest rumors regarding the release of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy have been swirling around message boards this week. The first rumor is that the long-awaited album will be released exclusively through Best Buy on November 25th. The source of the multi-tiered rumors is a supposed “vendor convention” that Best Buy had on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas. Reportedly, Guns manager Andy Gould told the 900 employees the news about Chinese Democracy before previewing three songs from the album. Cellphone recordings of the event were later distributed through GNR fan forums.

As reported earlier today, Guns N' Roses Road Manager Del James has announced that a new GN'R song called 'If The World' will appear on the soundtrack for Body Of Lies. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russel Crowe, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 10th.


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From experience, I can tell you "If the World" is a very good song! I was shocked that I would actually like it.

I was never, and never will be, a fan of this band. BUT, congrats to all the fans of the band. It's been a long time coming.

This is G-n-R's Trouble in Shangri-La album.