I recently listened again to the first disc of those Rough Mixes leaks, the one that's meant to be the version of the album that was presented to the label and got rejected. If that is indeed what it is, I find that so frustrating! It's a perfectly good album, even without proper mixing. While I do think the final version released in 2008 is better, it's certainly not so much better as to justify the whole mess that the history of GNR became as a result of that rejection. Although who knows, maybe Axl would have found a way to fuck things up anyway...