6 posts and columns on Guns N’ Roses

Welcome to the Jungle! Guns N’ Roses Accused of Stealing Songs for Pirated Album.

in Media on October 6, 2009 at 9:12 am PT

Musicians accuse other musicians of stealing their work all the time and I have no idea if this case has more or less merit than any other one. But I couldn’t resist relaying this story: Guns N’ Roses, which made a point of stringing up people who pirated the band’s last album, is now being accused of pirating songs on its last album.
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Blogger to Guns N’ Roses: Sorry I Shared Your Album. Best Buy to GNR: Sorry We Bought Your Album

in Media on December 16, 2008 at 11:40 am PT

No one wants to buy, or listen to, the supposedly long-awaited Guns N’ Roses album. Before anyone gets tempted to put two and two together here and blame the Internet for poor music sales, be warned: The music that is most popular among file sharers is the music that is most popular among buyers.

Why Are Music Sales Dropping? Because It’s Hard to Buy Music

in Media on December 2, 2008 at 4:34 am PT

Americans spent billions on CDs last year. But big-box retailers are increasingly uninterested in selling the discs in their stores. Newest data point: Borders Group, which has cut its music inventory by 30 percent in the last year.

Get Yer Free Britney Spears Here. Or on iMeem

in Media on November 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm PT

Give the music industry credit–a decade after the original Napster, it’s now standard practice to let fans listen to an entire disc worth of new music, for free, before it ever gets to stores. The latest example: Britney Spears’s new album, “Circus,” which you can listen to at iMeem.com. Or at the bottom of this post, via a groovy embeddable player.

OMG New GNR on MySpace! Oh…Nevermind

in Media on November 21, 2008 at 8:08 am PT

Next week’s release of “Chinese Democracy”–Guns N’ Roses’ first new album in a gazillion years–is supposed to be a very big deal. But listening data from MySpace, where the album is being previewed, indicate that fans may be disappointed. So may execs at Best Buy, which has an exclusive on the new disc.