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i.e. a lot of gimmicky shite used as an excuse to put a few more quid on the price.

I wouldn't bother with it myself but to be fair it's not actually a bad deal. Most t-shirts nowadays are at least £15 so that plus the record itself and the other stuff is fairly decent.

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It's the box-set that was released in the UK and a few other places shortly after the album was released. It's nothing new, the CD is the same, the box just comes with a few extra things. I've got it, the t-shirt and belt buckle are pretty cool. (T-shirt faded though, and only comes in size large). The keyring broke after not too long.

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I'm a huge CD fan, but this "collector's edition" is lousy. No interesting additional content like a booklet with stories, anecdotes, pics... just some material useless stuff( and ugly shirt beside that), but at this price it's an OK deal I guess (though I wouldn't buy it anyway).

If I was in charge of a Chinese Democracy Collector's Edition, I'd make a $75 collector's edition with a buckethead doll with a switch behind it so the eyes would light up in blue, a booklet with the story of Chinese Democracy and interviews of each member about their contribution on the album & Axl's letter about China, a live DVD of Rock in Rio 01 remastered in High Definition, and the CD album of course.

Why don't the marketers have more imagination? I'd totally buy something like this.

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I bought this purely as a collector’s item for £6 off Play. I probably won’t ever open it (or maybe one day when the possibility of a new album is all but gone I’ll peel back the sealing to find a misplaced copy of “Chinese Democracy” II).

with a buckethead doll with a switch behind it so the eyes would light up in blue, a booklet with the story of Chinese Democracy and interviews of each member about their contribution on the album & Axl's letter about China, a live DVD of Rock in Rio 01 remastered in High Definition, and the CD album of course.

That would obviously be really cool but who would be willing to manufacture and produce such an enormity?

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T-Shirt

Bandana

Patch

Belt Buckle

Key Ring

I just don't get it. Did Axl give the thumbs up to this?

Axl wanted to give the world Chinese Democracy, a vision of new GN'R, then releases 'Bandana Patch Belt Buckle Key Ring' which seems kinda 80's tacky..

- I'm sure they could have done better and been slightly more original.

4 extra tracks such as Silkworms would have been more impressive.

They could have been a little bit more with it and supplied phot's (digital or otherwise) of behind the scenes shots taken during the 10 year recording stint.

I bought this purely as a collector’s item for £6 off Play. I probably won’t ever open it (or maybe one day when the possibility of a new album is all but gone I’ll peel back the sealing to find a misplaced copy of “Chinese Democracy” II).

with a buckethead doll with a switch behind it so the eyes would light up in blue, a booklet with the story of Chinese Democracy and interviews of each member about their contribution on the album & Axl's letter about China, a live DVD of Rock in Rio 01 remastered in High Definition, and the CD album of course.

That would obviously be really cool but who would be willing to manufacture and produce such an enormity?

They could have designed it, come up with a price, and supplied on a demand (made to order).

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I bought this purely as a collector’s item for £6 off Play. I probably won’t ever open it (or maybe one day when the possibility of a new album is all but gone I’ll peel back the sealing to find a misplaced copy of “Chinese Democracy” II).

with a buckethead doll with a switch behind it so the eyes would light up in blue, a booklet with the story of Chinese Democracy and interviews of each member about their contribution on the album & Axl's letter about China, a live DVD of Rock in Rio 01 remastered in High Definition, and the CD album of course.

That would obviously be really cool but who would be willing to manufacture and produce such an enormity?

The figure would be the most expensive thing, but a figure like this would cost approximately 6-9$ to make and cost around $20 for customers. The CD's and DVD's cost absolutely nothing, the most expensive is the brand & packaging. It'd be easy to sell such an edition for $75.

@Star: I doubt Axl had the ideas for this edition, I doubt he cares for collector's editions, it seems to me that he's more interested in painting & arts, hence artwork on the album, than additional "material" content.

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supplied on a demand (made to order).

The issue is big bands like GN’R don’t “supply on demand” (there’s got to be a respectable concept that will appeal en masse otherwise the strategy is simply unapprovable).

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Theres nothing special about the special edition really. I remember it being absurdly expensive here in Australia. I doubt Axl had anything to do with it, considering the label rushed out the booklet we have.

The booklet screw up was stupid. Can you imagine - you work on an album for 10+ years, spend millions of dollars, only for the art department to fuck up at the finnal hurdle. Wasn't Axl ever given a finnal proof? - maybe he was, maybe he didn't look at it properly

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congrats! you have a right on signature, or whatever is it called, what you have under your post.

if only someone from GNR sees it, so they'll make something out of that truth about america's bankruptcy

and put it as the title for the next album, and thus, hopefully people will get it, and do something about it,

that is - declare it null on the grounds of the fact that the ones that got america in depth should pay and not the people,

since the people weren't given the possibility to vote for it - because, hey! that's what democracy is all about!

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