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11/08
An Open Letter W. Axl Rose – and His Understudy.
I am having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that we now live in a world where Chinese Democracy has been released to the listening public. This must be what voting feels like in a dictatorship – you don’t know what it counts for and you don’t really know why you’re doing it, but you’re going to be part of it, just because you can.
One of the only things I’ve ever spent money on in the Apple Itunes store was a digital copy of the Use Your Illusion II record. Then I realized that I didn’t have a copy of my favorite track, Coma, so I dropped a buck on that. Axl already has about eleven of my hard earned dollars this decade.
So of course I spent about 77 minutes sitting in front of a Myspace page listening to the new tracks stream out in front of me – for free – through my two crappy little Mac laptop speakers. And after processing the whole experience,I really just gotta say, Axl:
If you wanted to be the singer for a prog-rock band like Dream Theater, then why didn’t you just freaking say so.