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There has been some debate as to whether Merck was being sarcastic or not when he stated that a release date for Chinese Democracy may not be announced, and it may just surface in stores. Do you feel he was being sarcastic or did he mean what he said?

Talking Metal seems to side with the stance that he was being honest, and that they wouldn't be surprised at this point if it was a surprise.

So what do you think fellow Gunners: Sarcasm...or Not?

Worst.....thread.....ever.


Obvisously sarcasm, just like what i typed above. I hope your a fan of that enough to catch the reference. Cuz i love that show.  :smoking:

I'd love to think scarcastic.. But knowing the way GNR is handled he was serious ?:no:

I think its legit

Lol, I'm confused. Can you explain the reference?


I agree with you Dave.

Its a reference from my favorite tv show, The Simpsons. The Comic Guy says Worst...Episode...Ever...at the most opportune moment and hilarity ensues? :hihi: :smoking:

Oh okay I get it now.

Truth.  Believing this rumor more and more.

as the end of the year draws nearer, this seems more plausible... but come on now.. it'd be a marketing suicide if the album suddenly shows up in stores with no announcement or promotion

If it's honestly coming out this year - I'm thinking more and more that it could be true.

Sarcasm, if only because I really, really don't want it to be true.

does this mean all of us hardcore fans are gonna show up at our local record stores now and scour through the "G" section EVERY tuesday til the end of the year?  :hihi:

It's also marketing suicide if they put it out with months of promotion and a ton of money spent on promoting...even if it sold 600k its first week people would call it a failure.

So they'll spring it as a surprise so that you can't define it as a failure no matter what due to extraordinary circumstances.

Seems simple enough to me...

Sarcasm. No one is that stupid enough to a drop a cd, that's had $15million put into it, with no promotion.

Why would he be sarcastic? ?If they wanted to promote it don't you think Axl would mention it at one of his shows? ?He has NEVER mentioned the album ONCE in 2006 unless he was forced to by an interviewer. ?It's going to be a surprise.

man, i hate you guys... now i'm really gonna end up going to the store every tuesday and looking for the album  >:(

 :rofl:

It's not being promoted because it's not coming out. Be realistic.

If it's not coming out then why tour?  Whats the point, just to tour?  He is playing new songs, but he WON"T play anymore NEW songs until the album is released.  All of this touring this year under the name "Chinese Democracy" has to mean something right?  Just too many questions waiting to be answered.  It'll be out this year.

You could have asked those same questions on new years in 2000 or any time during the 2002 tour (which was also the Chinese Democracy tour).

Chinese Democracy DOES mean something... it's something that's never going to happen.

By them not promoting it that is the promotion. Get it?

There is no way Universal would pump millions into an album to have it just show up with no promotion, just like they wouldn't let someone just decide not to release it.

Be real, if it just showed up it would not set the world on fire.

Truth.

The albums coming out. :yes:

Are YOU being sarcastic? Let the new debate ensue...

they'll have promotion. even if it's just a weekend but it will happen.

Ok, for the 50th millionth, billionth time...  Releasing it without announing a release date is DIFFERENT from releasing it WITHOUT PROMOTION.

The band is on TOUR for the album right now and OBVIOUSLY has a commercial featuring a new song being released, so the album is already being promoted with more promotion on the way.  Saying the album will have "no promotion" doesn't make any sense.

So yeah, they could release it with no announcement, but I think he was being sarcastic about the comment.  Of course, as each week goes by, the amount of time available between an announcement and the CD's release only get's smaller and smaller....

I think Merck's comment was probably serious.

But I could see why it would be thought of as sarcastic.

And yeah.. releasing it by surprise.. and not having promo are two different things.

That's like saying not collecting stamps is a hobby.

I look at it as this, one friday evening, an announcement is gonna be giving (and mind you this is only speculation on my part), that the album will be released on the coming tues? whatever that is. It will circulate amonst all the gnr community, then be pulled and we crazy mofos will tell everyone and thier mother about it, come monday a huge marjority of people will know aobut it, the local news outlets will go nuts from the insanely high traffic on the internet of CD eminent release. Entertainment to night, the indsider , all the entertainment new sources, MTV, etc, will go nuts and be esasperated, when announcing , that it is official GNR's LONG AWAITD CD< is hitting the shelves tomorrow!

You know damn well all our cxollective asses will be out in force, that nextr day!.

So tell me its that not a good marketing plan? I dunno. BUt like I said Im only creating a scenario and speculating. BUT I made myself excited!

oh my stance, btw, is I think , feel its legit

i hope the merck statement is just the promotion before the real promotion. this way the album can be hyped at least twice in a short period of time...

ps: don't think that this is the "worst thread ever" as one of you has stated: i'd rather say, that it's one of the major concerns in the gnr-fan-world (right now) being discussed.

Remember what happened to the Limp Bizkit CD that appeared without promotion, single etc ................. ;D

I think he was serious. I believe the most we're gonna hear about it is roughly the Friday before release.

did mysteron say he was being sarcastic?
i thought i saw that somewhere.

Tongue.....In......Cheek

I dont think they will release it without announcing it, but its not going to be announced a month in advance or anything. I say there will be 2 weeks or less before the release date that it will be announced.

Wow, it really seems this topic is debatable. I thought it was only debatable in my mind (and everyone but me assumed it was sarcasm)...I'm glad I posted this thread? :yes: