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On 8/30/2018 at 7:23 AM, donny said:

so this insider source that says 8000-8500 have been sold, would that be the same insider that said it will retail at $650 ? 

Hard to know.  That $650 price came from Mitch Lafon.  Who he heard it from is anybody's guess.  The 8000-8500 number came from my contact at the label.  But yes, could all be horseshit.  But so can anything said to any of us by anyone ever.  This person has no reason to lie to me that I can think of, they certainly have no idea that I would report that here. 

9 hours ago, AxlIsGod. said:

Some of his guns nitl shirts were Gildan prints

The only Gildan shirts he sold in the past were from the New Zealand and Australia gigs.  Those shirts have the Gildan tags.  This has been confirmed by those that were at the shows and by those that bought leftover merchandise directly from the merch company.  Here is one example:

http://www.troccolitm.com/ShirtSydDiff.html

Yes, most of their other gigs (not the Thailand shows) just have the Guns N Roses printed tag.  However, if you look closely, even these had tags that were cut out at some point.  Could they have been Gildan?  Perhaps.  Now yes, there are bootleg shirts being sold (mostly from Hong Kong and Indonesia) that have Gildan tags.  Just saying the ones warpig sold were not fakes.  To me, that lent legitimacy to what he was saying about everything.  I don't really want to get into the litho stuff again because it has been discussed ad nauseum (mostly by me, estrangedtwat, The Holographic Universe, and amaninjapan) in this thread before.  Not sure what pages, you'd have to search back a good amount.
 

6 hours ago, Dacatzass said:

They are special Gilden VIP T-shirts... for VIP guests.

See above.

4 hours ago, TigerBubba said:

Gildan shirts are poor quality and not the “soft cotton” the official merch shirts are made from. Not the real deal.

See above.

10 hours ago, k12 said:

is that for real? I honestly thought they might have sold 1,000 of them at the most, who the hell is buying them at $1,000 a pop, this is the home of GNR die hards and it seems the majority of the people are staying away, I can't imagine them selling more than 1-2,000 of these things

For real indeed, I was shocked myself!

On 9/3/2018 at 4:18 AM, Dacatzass said:

Warpig discussion has been talked about ad nauseam... online sleuthing has proven he works at a print shop in Brooklyn and has access to all the equipment required to make copies of these things. He also sells obvious fakes of concert T’s on eBay.

 You believe this jackass has an “in” with the band and all his unnumbered lithos are special prints given away to special “VIP” guests? Then you are a special kind of stupid!

What makes you think the shirts he is/was selling are fakes?

6 hours ago, RussTCB said:

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/deal/deal-alert-guns-n-roses-mega-box/

The discounts have started with the above alert from Germany. Only a small discount for now, but I expect discounts to continue and ramp up through the holidays. When this was released, I predicted that we might be able to purchase it for around $500 USD by Christmas and I'm hoping that comes true.

That deal must have only been for a day because that is not the price right now, even on Amazon's Germany website.

On 8/18/2018 at 2:23 PM, Lindy100 said:

Does anyone know how many of the boxed sets have been sold?  

At least 8000, but probably closer to 8500.  According to my contacts at the label.

My Locomotive video got taken down.  Weird since it was being monetized by the label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdzwsVzZFw

12 hours ago, Mcs953 said:

Like to throw something out here for an opinion from the community, what does everybody think about lithos with no number.  I know they exist as I have been to hatch show print in Nashville and was shown two unnumbered ones from the Nashville gnr show in 2016.  I ended up getting a numbered one later but offered to buy one of the unnumbered ones and was told that they are not for sale.  I know some are unnumbered such as the New Jersey One and the Boston two.  The question would be, do they print more of these than the initial run and do they have any value? 

 

Looking for an opinion from the experts here.

 

 Thanks.

Controversial and has been discussed ad nauseam already.  Search the thread and you will find it.

On ‎8‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 9:17 PM, Johnny Thunders said:

Mine is roughly 25 X 34 in size. I posted a picture of it above in the thread. I got it in 1987 or 88, but maybe as late as 1989, although I think 1988 was the year. In all the years since then I don't recall ever seeing it....anywhere......not until now have I ever even seen a picture of someone else's copy of it.

I've never heard of or seen that larger version that person is selling on eBay.

Regarding troccolli's comment above about the legitimacy of the poster. I believe it is official, as mine was acquired from a music store back then. While I suppose it still could be a bootleg, it seems unlikely bootleggers would send these around to promote the band. But I guess with no real official story about the poster we may never know....

Bigger ones have sold before.  I have a Worthpoint account and I can post later of previous auctions.  As for the legitimacy, yes, I don't know for certain.  Now it's one thing that there is no Geffen logo since with LLAS they were trying to pretend that it was an independent release.  But for fuck's sake, there isn't even an Uzi Suicide logo on it!!!

Here you go:
 

On ‎8‎/‎9‎/‎2018 at 2:22 PM, WAR™ said:

I think that the "HD" it's not online anywhere... 

the video mastertape would be the answer

@troccoli does it exist?

I'm not sure, I don't collect any of the solo stuff.

On ‎8‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 3:26 AM, carola said:

I'd really love to get both lithos but shipping to Estonia is 110 CDN  Is there anyone trustworthy who could forward them to Europe, Estonia? Surely regularly shipping them isn't THAT expensive? 

I can do it for you if you want.  Of course I will not charge you anything for my time or effort.  If interested send me a PM.

I posted this here since I am not sure how many are checking other sections these days and it's a topic that may interest a wide range of people.

Do you love GNR?  Do you love Canada?  Do you need more GNR clothing and posters in your life?  Did you miss out on the Toronto pop-up store?  Well then get ready to be happy!  The following websites have merchandise for sale from the Toronto pop-up store.

https://shop.musicvaultz.com/artist.html?a=guns_n_roses

https://ca.gnrmerch.com/

https://shop.umusic.ca/search.html?term=Guns+and+roses

Be sure to check out the combos available too!  Order the Locked and Loaded and get the jacket or jersey of your choice free!

*Pro-tip: If you live in North America and order over $50 of merchandise from the musicvaultz website it includes free shipping!!! (possibly the same deal from umusic but I'm not sure)

On ‎7‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 8:29 PM, ZoSoRose said:

I hope you arent dragged into this, man. You are a great guy and I know you just like getting along with everyone on all sides. Hope all is well!

Thanks, we'll see, I really hope not too!  All is well for now.  If it happens I know what I will say for myself, I just hope it is enough!

On ‎7‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 8:35 PM, WAR41 said:

I was actually curious to know how you felt about this Tim.  I believe you’ve unearthed and shared some amazing stuff (not just  merch).  I would think if there is one person who could talk sense into Mofo you could do it.  Alfred is a lost cause. 

I am beginning to feel that Alfred is a lost cause as well.  Many people have asked why I haven't banned him from the Facebook collector's group yet.  Only because I haven't seen any PROOF that he isn't working for the band/label/mgmt.  I am not saying that he is of course.  But I don't believe in acting on allegations and accusations alone, dependent on circumstances.  I will talk to Mofo.  I will say this - he is not someone that always tows the line.  He has made some posts on the Nightrain forum that were quite critical of the fan club and management. 

Of course I agree that regardless of it all, there is absolutely zero need for any threats of any kind from anyone to anyone.  I know who made one of the threats (the one to axlrose4life), but who made the threat to Gambit?  Does anyone know for sure or will it take a cybercrimes unit to figure out I wonder?

2 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

Whore Faced Asshole is buddies with MSL, who's blackmailed the band in the past and has (supposedly) benefited from it. I'm sure the people in question aren't above blackmailing the band; a "don't ban me and I wont leak _____" kind of scenario.

I can assure you that they are no longer friends, precisely because of all of this.

1 hour ago, Wagszilla said:

Spare me your sermon @Legendador

If other bands' music is pulled down, it's clearly and definitively done by the record company.

Prince, Michael Jackson, pretty much every other fanbase has mountains of unreleased material in their hands.

And guess what, it's all on YouTube! The horror!

I'm betting most of them have bought every official release at least once...

This crazy fan is:

1. Impersonating GN'R (crime)
2. Participating in the black market economy as a buyer and seller (more serious crime)
3. Threatening people's families (most serious crime)

If you want to go full fascist, be my guest, but don't overlook the most egregious thing that is going on here.

If you think it's fans quietly enjoying things that have been around for decades, you've got some fucked up priorities.

 

 

"Participating in the black market economy as a buy and seller."  We all might want to be careful not to pursue this.  Sure some damage could be done to "Alfred", but also to axlrose4life or whatever his username is. 

On 7/27/2018 at 5:00 PM, The Holographic Universe said:

How many of the NITL tour lithos do you own?

A little easier to tell you the ones I still need.  They are:

Orlando United (7/29/16)

Both Thai lithos (2/28/17)

Slane (5/27/17)

Bilbao (5/30/17)

Lisbon (6/2/17)

Madrid (6/4/17)

London (6/17/17)

Paris (7/7/17)

On 7/24/2018 at 7:40 PM, The Holographic Universe said:

Who are you going to bequeath your collection to after you pass away? Who gets the ultimate GNR collection?

The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame of course!  lol

Well hopefully I will live long enough where I will have to sell it all one day.  But I should probably make a will just in case...

On 7/16/2018 at 9:42 AM, AncientEvil80 said:

The one we see in Reckless Road seems to display 1986 though. Or maybe it's a corrected version?

Exactly.  The band realized the misprint while they were still stamping the tickets so some have the year 85 and some 86

On 6/30/2018 at 6:13 PM, liqddynamite said:

I'm assuming our negotiation is over since you just took our private conversation to the public forum.  

Not that it really matters, but the ask for my Cinci is $750, not $700.  This is for the simple fact that I may never see another one, and there hasn't been one on ebay in so long you can't even look up sold items for it.  Feel free to look elsewhere for it.

I'm really not into rubbing things in peoples faces, that's basically the opposite of who I am, but I went out of my way to inform you of the current landscape and this is the thanks I got, so here you go:

 

None of these are for sale.

 

Professionally done?  If so, where?  Done yourself?  If so, where did you get the supplies?  Thanks, it all looks amazing

2 hours ago, DeadSlash said:

This was my question too, I got the Mid-tier version that is around $200.  I would like to hear this.  I take it that it is not available in digital form?

That is correct.  But it can be found if you drive around the information superhighway long enough...

7 hours ago, aure69 said:

Japanese shm CD ?

Discogs link with a pic of the patch https://www.discogs.com/Guns-N-Roses-Appetite-For-Destruction/release/12190675

You can see the patch there, but that is not the Japanese release.  It's a Target exclusive.  The Japanese 2 disc can be seen here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GUNS-N-ROSES-Appetite-For-Destruction-JAPAN-SHM-2CD-DELUXE-EDITION-REMASTER/283032981687?epid=24019928429&hash=item41e61490b7:g:g5sAAOSw2JJbN0Gk

12 hours ago, Powerage5 said:

Did you know the cassette was gonna be included in this? Or are you not at liberty to say?

I did not know the cassette was going to be included!

Regarding the hidden cassette:

"Tape does play the tracks and we pulled from the original analog tape and transferred at 192K 24-bit.

We will not be making these songs avail other than the cassette at the moment."