SoulMonster Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Chinese Democracy is available on Amazon for $1.41 USD (New), $0.56 USD (Used).That's great news. I hope many people buy it. Music to the people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 At a Best Buy I've gone to twice this year, only AFD, the UYIs and the Greatest Hits were available. CD was not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisRoyalSweetness Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 is it possible dollar general made best buy a good offer on all those crates of unsold chinese democracy cd's in the warehouse? maybe the CEO of best buy got a few hundred pairs of socks for christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nambis Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 is it possible dollar general made best buy a good offer on all those crates of unsold chinese democracy cd's in the warehouse? maybe the CEO of best buy got a few hundred pairs of socks for christmas.Best Buy obviously sold them for pretty damn cheap for Dollar General to buy all the stock, transport it, sit on it and hope to sell it for $1/CD. I'll bet Dollar General ended up paying about $0.20/CD. Best Buy sure got fucked on that deal LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisRoyalSweetness Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 is it possible dollar general made best buy a good offer on all those crates of unsold chinese democracy cd's in the warehouse? maybe the CEO of best buy got a few hundred pairs of socks for christmas.Best Buy obviously sold them for pretty damn cheap for Dollar General to buy all the stock, transport it, sit on it and hope to sell it for $1/CD. I'll bet Dollar General ended up paying about $0.20/CD. Best Buy sure got fucked on that deal LOL.yeah, that's a great point. if dollar general is selling them for a dollar, that means they're making money off that dollar. so that means they were bought for way less. who will ever know if chinese democracy was truly a flop? all we know is four years later, nobody outside of an internet forum knows the songs and that best buy sold their remaining stock to dollar general for pennies on the dollar. it will forever be a mystery of chinese democracy was a flop. so hard to tell in these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunzen Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) I dont understand, what does price have to do with anything? Some CD's are prebought by chains and then discounted by time on shelf/catalog value. Axl got his money, so what is your point? Who gives a shit? Did that make the residency any less fun cause CD is cheap? Is this all you have to hang your hat and your love for a drug addicted crybaby who has the posture of an monkey? Really? Edited December 11, 2012 by Gunzen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 gunzen, if this thread hurt your feelings, htgth is the place for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisRoyalSweetness Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 there's just been this ongoing war on the forum for years between people who think chinese democracy was a flop and those who are continuing to try and convince themselves that it was a hit, or is just on the verge or becoming a hit, or some other silliness. not that it matters, but as one of the people who have accepted that cd was a flop and is cool with it, i think it's funny when stuff like this comes up which seems to quite clearly demonstrate the lack of demand for chinese democracy, because it causes the other group to do some crazy mental gymnastics to try and convince themselves that the information they're reading isn't valid. or somehow doesn't represent the full picture. it's cheap and petty, i know. but i find it amusing. at least amusing enough to talk about while procrastinating at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill Devil Hill Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Wtf is Dollar General? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisRoyalSweetness Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 it's a discount store in america. where most things are only a dollar. kinda sub-walmart bargain shopping. lots of off brands, overstocks and slightly damaged goods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill Devil Hill Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I live in America. It's called Dollar Tree unless it's called something else on the east coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanudo19 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 paid 30 dollars for my chinese special edition. best guns album ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I couldn't care less what any album I've purchase is going for these days. I'm just happy to have supported each artist I liked by buying their album when I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavgnr Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 paid 30 dollars for my chinese special edition. best guns album ever.Is that the version with the t shirt, etc? Good price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtle Signs Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 'Tis the season for packing the mall and racking up the credit card bill.There's a reason Christmas as become so crassly commercial. Retailers ring up as much as 40 percent of the entire year's sales between Black Friday and Christmas day. But there is one segment of stores that skips the holiday hoopla. In fact, they seem to fly under the retail radar all year long: Dollar stores.Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET and get a sneak peek HEREThe three top players, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and Dollar General, have quietly become a $56 billion industry and they are opening new locations faster than Starbucks. By one estimate, there are more dollar stores in the United States than drug stores."Believe it or not, we can still open a lot of stores," said Family Dollar CEO Howard Levine. "Particularly in California where we just opened a store a year ago… this is probably a 1,000-store state."Right now, Levine overseas an empire of 7,550 stores nationwide -- and counting. Family Dollar opened 500 new stores this year – more than one per day."If somebody told me I was cheap, I would take that as a compliment," he said. "That means we are looking for value. That means we don't overpay for stuff."When asked what his answer was to the stereotype that dollar stores only sell junk, Levine said, "I say you haven't been in a Family Dollar, maybe ever, to make that kind of comment."But cheap is working. The three dollar chains are Fortune 500 companies. Another chain, 99 Cents Only, is eyeing real estate on Beverly Hill's ritzy Rodeo Drive. There is already a store on Wilshire Boulevard, not far away, and it is the chain's best-performing location. It makes double the sales of most others.Dollar stores have been expanding while the rest of the economy has been receding. Family Dollar has been doing well more than a half century. Levine's father opened the first one in Charlotte, N.C., in 1959."My friends say, 'I'm miserable, but you must love this economy,'" Levine said. "That's not really the case. We would much prefer a strong economy, strong employment. People need jobs and when people have jobs, they spend money. We do pretty well in a tough time, but we do very well in good times."In the beginning, Family Dollar sold only things that cost a buck, but they abandoned that years ago. Today, roughly 90 percent of their products are less than $10. About one-third of everything they sell is not made in America, but Levine said that's just the nature of the business."Unfortunately, a lot of manufacturing has gone overseas," he said. "They have a cheap way of doing it and consumers accept it. There is no backlash from that so you got to go where you get the value and you got to go where you have the workmanship and the factories to do that."Inside one of Family Dollar distribution centers is a speeding maze of conveyor belts and sorting machines. There is little room for error because in the dollar store business, it's the cents that really matter."A good retailer, after taxes, if you can make 5 cents on every dollar you sell… it's amazing," Levine said.Being fast and efficient is just one of the secrets to the dollar store business's success. The other is doing everything, well, on the cheap.The winning formula begins in tiny towns -- the underserved communities even Wal-Mart or Target wouldn't give a second look. Dollar stores gobble up cheap real estate, sometimes an old store front on a forgotten Main Street, or the strip mall that lost a bookstore or an electronics retailer. Then they hire a small work force -- each store might only have two people working at a time, whereas a Wal-Mart or Target will have a payroll of more than 100.Dollar stores use almost no advertising. No expensive TV commercials. Customers can pick up a circular in the front of the store to find deals.Their final secret is a laser-like focus on the customer -- some might even call it an obsession. When Family Dollar President Mike Bloom is talking about business, he paints a picture of a mother."Eighty percent of our customers are women so we think about 'her' all the time," Bloom said. "She earns $40,000 a year or less and a lot of them earn $25,000 a year or less. It's usually a single mom in a household typically taking care of kids."Bloom spent three decades working for drugstore giant CVS. When he came to Family Dollar, he said he noticed the company's cheap corporate culture from day one."I would sit in meetings and watch presentations, I would miss half of the presentation because they would print on both sides," he said. "I'm like, 'this is brilliant, right?' I'm thinking of where I worked for 31 years. Never did we print on both sides."Levine said he expects to double the size of his chain in the U.S. He is already a millionaire many times over, but 50 years after he first walked the aisles of his father's store in North Carolina, he still shops there."This is what I have brought," he said proudly, holding up a pair of man's pajamas. "Eight dollars, I mean, unbelievable. Where else can you get a value like this?"http://news.yahoo.com/dollar-store-inc-booming-business-being-cheap-174944848--abc-news-money.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerthGNR Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 They could give it away for free, I honestly doubt it would generate anymore interest in CD. Anyone who wanted it, has it by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trqster Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 They could give it away for free, I honestly doubt it would generate anymore interest in CD. Anyone who wanted it, has it by now.This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 They could give it away for free, I honestly doubt it would generate anymore interest in CD. Anyone who wanted it, has it by now.This.Yes, everyone who wanted it, probably has it by now. But the thing is, new people will start wanting it, and it would be silly to give it to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumbleine Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 why would that be silly?music should be free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcano62 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 music should be free.Really? How are artists suppose to pay for the bills? We all have them by the way unless you're mooching off your parents.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisRoyalSweetness Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 cd is practically free now, and clearly, axl's still eating very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellobeatle Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 This picture speaks volumes. From the other albums it's bunched between and the cheap lights and crappy sunglasses below it.Imagine looking into the future and seeing this picture sometime between 1996-2007?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzydoezit Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 This picture speaks volumes. From the other albums it's bunched between and the cheap lights and crappy sunglasses below it.Imagine looking into the future and seeing this picture sometime between 1996-2007??It was inevitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nambis Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Here's another photo from the internet (I didn't take this one): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Is this all you have to hang your hat and your love for a drug addicted crybaby who has the posture of an monkey? Wow, comparing a black man to a monkey. Homophobic, racist and you use the word retard as an insult.You are a real classy guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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