Comments on: “Chinese Democracy”: So, How’d All That Pent-Up Demand Work Out?

By: MrStarhead

MrStarhead — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:19:50 +0000

I never could get into the damn Dr. Pepper website.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:35:36 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: Indeed. Something about Tony Soprano's expression kills me there. He's smoking a victory cigar after a retail ass-kicking.

By: cookiedough

cookiedough — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:09:33 +0000

@DocStrange: God the Dr. Pepper website is making me so frustrated. I've been trying at random points in the day for it to work, and it hasn't. I even called the customer service number, but the line was busy.

I don't even like Dr. Pepper. I just think it's funny that I get a free one because an album came out.

I hope some company does a promotion like this for December 21, 2012.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:21:06 +0000

@DocStrange: For what it's worth, I was not quite 3 years old when Use Your Illusion came out.

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:18:38 +0000

Also, i'm gonna see if I can actually get into the Dr Pepper website. Now, this offer is attractive to me, as Dr Pepper is my favorite drink of them all. I have 17 hours before this promotion runs out and 6 weeks for a coupon to come. Let's see if this promotion breaks the internet like Cargill's leak did.

I wonder if Kevin Cargill gets a free Dr Pepper? Or does Buckethead get his?

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:12:11 +0000

@VivaLaMainstream: I was approximately two (born in December of 1989, you do the math yourself) when the Illusions came out. Which is kind of depressing.

I remember Chuck Klosterman summing up this length of time in an April Fool's review of the record a few years ago: "Chances are, if you bought a kitten the day the Use Your Illusions came out, it's probably dead by now".

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:10:25 +0000

My Local Best Buy did have a line.
Of about 15 people.
At least 6 of them probably weren't alive when the band (or as I call them now, Axl, Dizzy & Friends) released the Use Your Illusions.

I actually did buy a copy. It's good, but not "14 years good". It'd be an awesome record if this was 1999, though.

By: Silverfuture

Silverfuture — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:49:43 +0000

Free Mr. Pibb if we make it to the 22nd?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:20:19 +0000

Picked it up in Willow Grove, PA (Philly suburbs). The same display from Al's pick was just right of center as you walked in the door, sharing prime space with Gears of War 2 and WALL-E. I'd say there were a healthy number of discs on the display, and there were 3 or 4 other folks holding copies as I walked around. There were also a few remaining copies of the vinyl sitting there.

==TJ==

PS I also preordered/bought it on iTunes in addition to buying the physical disc. Does this make me a loser/on par with that Zune guy?

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:24:13 +0000

Al’s photo kind of says it all, huh?