How are YOU gong to Listen to CD

[slunksoma]

Right so we've been waiting. Thats obvious. When CD finally drops how are you going to go about getting your hands on it first (im assuming it doesnt get leaked btw) and where/when are you going to listen to it? Are you taking the day/week off work? Lets get some heart warming stories out!!!
Im planning to preorder it but also head out to the nearest record store and pick one off the shelf, because i have to make sure i get it asap and I want to savour the sight of it on the shelf but not for much longer i'll hope. Then I'm going to take it down to the riverside (I live in Surbiton UK, near the thames) and pop it on without any disruption. Just me and CD. Then im going to cry.
 

[Back Off Bitch]

Probably go to my local record store and bring my disc man, buy it, walk outside, open it and pop it in and blast it as loud as it goes...

[Alan]

i'm buying it sticking it on my ipod then playing it over the PA at the pub i work at if i'm at work (if i'm at work on the release day)

[Nytunz]

Buy it. Drive home. Put it in the CD player. "give myself alittlebit of volum" and open a Newcastle Brown.

[McGann]

My wife has orders
To leave me alone a bit
In our massage chair

While I use headphones
And browse liner notes with care
For full enjoyment.


Splash

/Mike

[pasnow]

Goto a midnight release, play it in my car on the way home, listen to the rest at home.. Pull the trigger & take the following day off from work

[Journeyman]

I dont know...maybe I'll drive home, dark my room and put it in the stereo and listen to it loud!!

[jazjme]

Goin to go right to the closest place availible to buy cds, probably cuircuit city . Buy a couple of copies, stare in awe at it, return home, if Im supposed to work that night, Im calling out. Im gonna put it on, hit play, from start to finish, and repeat probably about as many times as I can in the day. And really listen to it.

[lennonisgod]

I will put it in a CD player and press play. Then I will wait a second until the wonderful sound starts to come out of the speakers. THAT is how I will listen to CD. FUCK, I was just thinking, it's going to be great to have the album but at the same time it's going to be so surreal. We've waited for so fucking long and then it will be like, "Now what do we wait for??"  Can anything else even compare to the excitement and build up for the release of this album?? It's like everything that comes after this COULD never amount to what we have gone through for years and what we are going through right now. This album is going to mean a lot to all of us, JUST BASED ON THE FACT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO MANY FUCKING YEARS!!

EDIT: The question, "Now what do we wait for??" isn't supposed to be about life in general. I hope everyone has continued on with their life as normal, while waiting for this album.  The question refers to GN'R, not life.

[jimb0]

Fucking A...

I'm gonna be working on release day or else I'd say get some drinkage or something else.... Maybe some poppy tea. 

Hopefully it will leak and I'll get it after my shift and do the same.  Or I'll just have to hold off until after my shift. 

[snead hearn]

Most likely, come to work, go at lunch to Virgin @ Union Square. Come back, pop it in, repeat play all afternoon. Add it to the Ipod, play on the subway ride home. Go to the gym, still repeat on Ipod. Come back home, eat dinner, play on home stereo till bed.

Wake up, repeat. For about 4 days.

[Journeyman]

I will put it in a CD player and press play. Then I will wait a second until the wonderful sound starts to come out of the speakers. THAT is how I will listen to CD. FUCK, I was just thinking, it's going to be great to have the album but at the same time it's going to be so surreal. We've waited for so fucking long and then it will be like, "Now what do we wait for??"? Can anything else even compare to the excitement and build up for the release of this album?? It's like everything that comes after this COULD never amount to what we have gone through for years and what we are going through right now. This album is going to mean a lot to all of us, JUST BASED ON THE FACT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO MANY FUCKING YEARS!!

we will feel empty maybe...10 years waiting, and then the wait is over...I dont care, I just wanted to be over ?

[pasnow]

"Now what do we wait for??"?

I'll probably look for a new job, consider grad school, myb get married, start a family..  Start investing in a 401k.. ??Move ahead with my life, all the things I should have done the past 10 ?years or so..

[LittleFly]

I'll probably be working (cuz I work ALL THE TIME), so what I'll do is ask to work from home that day. ?I'll steal my daughter's cd player from her room, set it up....somewhere....that's gonna be the difficult part. ?I might just sweep everything off the desk and on to the floor. ?I NEED ROOM! ?

So then, I will put the disc in, sit down in my executive leather chair, close my eyes and listen to the whole damn thing. Then I will take out the packaging and listen again, while looking at the lyrics and whatever else comes with it.

At some point in the day, I might actually work, but first things first.

[Journeyman]

"Now what do we wait for??"?

I'll probably look for a new job, consider grad school, myb get married, start a family..? Start investing in a 401k.. ??Move ahead with my life, all the things I should have done the past 10 ?years or so..

  

[masterdan]

I'm gonna buy it as soon as I can... Then I'm gonna go to wherever I can listen to it the loudest, and listen to the whole album.  Maybe my girlfriend's dad's house.  He likes stuff like that anyways, and he's got a huge ass stereo in his house.  (my g/f like GNR, too, so it will be cool)

[lennonisgod]

I'll probably be working (cuz I work ALL THE TIME), so what I'll do is ask to work from home that day.  I'll steal my daughter's cd player from her room, set it up....somewhere....that's gonna be the difficult part.  I might just sweep everything off the desk and on to the floor.  I NEED ROOM! 

So then, I will put the disc in, sit down in my executive leather chair, close my eyes and listen to the whole damn thing. Then I will take out the packaging and listen again, while looking at the lyrics and whatever else comes with it.

At some point in the day, I might actually work, but first things first.

I WILL however take the day off work. I mentioned this in another thread but I have 2 paid vacation days left for the year, so I will be getting paid for that day. Then I will take off for the Cleveland show. After the dust settles though, and the concert is done and the album has been released and listened to 1000 times, it's back to school in January. 

[pilferk]

IF we know the release date far enough in advance, I'll take the day off, pick it up at the local record store when the open, and pop it into my car's CD player with great haste. ?I will probably NOT leave the parking lot until I am well into the album and then I'll tool around and listen for a bit before heading home and traumatizing my 3 small children with far too many decibels of (very probably) completely inappropriate (for their young minds and ears) music...or I'll send them to their grandma's house for a bit, and only traumatize my wife.

If we DON'T find out the release date until just a few days before....I'll probably just leave work early and hit up a completely different record store, pick up my copy, and will listen on my ride home (which is an hour +).

[slunksoma]

How are we going to feel after we have listened to it? There is gonna be one hell of a come down regardless of how good it is. Anticipation like this always leaves you wanting-no matter what is delivered. When the last blips of sound filter from the album into my mind, its gonna be a weird feeling no?

[lennonisgod]

IF we know the release date far enough in advance, I'll take the day off, pick it up at the local record store when the open, and pop it into my car's CD player with great haste.  I will probably NOT leave the parking lot until I am well into the album and then I'll tool around and listen for a bit before heading home and traumatizing my 3 small children with far too many decibels of (very probably) completely inappropriate (for their young minds and ears) music...or I'll send them to their grandma's house for a bit, and only traumatize my wife.

If we DON'T find out the release date until just a few days before....I'll probably just leave work early and hit up a completely different record store, pick up my copy, and will listen on my ride home (which is an hour +).

That will probably be the greatest one hour drive home from work EVER!!