Anyone here who won't spoil it for themselves?

[faldor]

I'm gonna break down and listen tomorrow night.  Set up a little listening party.  I didn't think my friends would agree, but they did, so now I must go through with it.  It's been tough staying away though since midnight last night.  I did listen to the first 3 songs on the album, as I've already heard those 3 on the radio anyway.  And my cpu was too slow to close down myspace so I ended up hearing the first 20 seconds or so of Street Of Dreams.  I'm not counting that though.

[sneeks]

I'm not listening until I have the real cd bought and at home.

[crow316]

You guys know its the same songs on Myspace thats on the CD right?

[GnFnR87]

i'm holdin' out too. won't listen to it till sunday when i go and buy it. then i'm gonna chill out and listen to it all the way through.

[greenfrog03]

I hadnt listened to anything that I didn't hear on the radio.   I refused to listen to any leaks, or even anything on myspace.  Got my copy of CD today though, and am loving it. 

[gummyfish]

I preordered it and had it shipped to my best buy, and i'm refusing to listen to it online.

[MadmanDan]

  I was thinking the same thing, not to listen until I actually have the CD, but the I thought...Am I fucking mad?? (ignore my nickname:) ) Has the records companies anti-internet downloading propaganda got to us???

  These are FINISHED SONGS, people !! Not demos, not live shit, they are 100% the finished article. So why wait?? Sure, it sounds better on a 5.1 speaker sistem, but they're still the same songs !

[stone_temple_roses]

Well, already heard CD on the radio and bits and pieces of Better (I have dial up internet, so thats why, and yeah it sucks.) Aside from that, never listened to the leaks and/demos, live stuff, etc. And I do not use myspace, therefore I am holding out until Sunday. I'm getting very anxious but its worth the wait because its something to look forward to. I will definately be spending the rest of that day listening to it, can't wait to see the physical product with the booklet and everything. It will be a special day, I will tell you that. By the way, Better is a GREAT song, even though I've only heard bits and pieces. I hate my internet.


~STR

[Zartan]

i too am holding out for Sunday--save C.D. and Better...

[estebanf]

You guys know its the same songs on Myspace thats on the CD right?

but it's not the same ritual. There is still people out there who give importance to listening music the way it should be heard.

I need a physical album, I need to touch the booklet. I need to feel the emotion of inserting the CD in my audio system. I want to feel surprised in the proper conditions.

The waiting is fucking killing me, trust me, i'm desperate. But it will be worth.

Oh, and they are not the same. Compression, in audio terms, means ''lack of something''.

I want to hear the full, complete thing in my first time.

[FunkyMonkey]

I haven't heard it yet...and reading all the comments/reviews hasn't made it any easier. 

I'm looking forward to Sunday.

[Axl&Baz07]

You guys know its the same songs on Myspace thats on the CD right?

but it's not the same ritual. There is still people out there who give importance to listening music the way it should be heard.

I need a physical album, I need to touch the booklet. I need to feel the emotion of inserting the CD in my audio system. I want to feel surprised in the proper conditions.

The waiting is fucking killing me, trust me, i'm desperate. But it will be worth.

Oh, and they are not the same. Compression, in audio terms, means ''lack of something''.

I want to hear the full, complete thing in my first time.

this is how i feel, exactly! 

[Ax]

I have been waiting to hear this cd since before I knew what the internet was and will be waiting to hear it until I buy it at the store. Part of it is that I have been thinking for years about what it will be like to walk into a store and pick the cd up off the shelf and don't want to spoil that experience by having already heard all the songs online. It will be a very strange experience buying the cd since it is something I have thought about for so long. Sunday will be a day I remember for a long time.

[Eazy E]

Guys, the album is on Myspace!  They WANT you to hear it now, join in!

[Thorned Rose]

I think most of us have heard the leaks througout the years.

I have given in, but to have the actual album in my hands will still be just as sweet to me.

[Lord Kayoss]

I have already "ruined it" for myself due to the simple fact that if I hadn't, several others around me would have.

I am by far the biggest GN'R fan anyone who knows me knows, so any and everyone who has already downloaded the album have been blowing up my phone and email telling me all about it.

If not for that, I would've waited.

But still, that won't take away from the feeling I'll have when I have the CD in my hands when I walk out of Best Buy.  That one event has been so many years full of DEEP anticipation in the making and cannot be jaded in any way.

[TempletonPeck]

I too had listened to the nine leaks (plus a demoish version of Catcher In The Rte), but went on Chinese Democracy sabbatical once the release date dropped.  I have been listening to bootleg concerts though, with some new songs in there...
Sunday cannot come soon enough.

[thelostrose]

I listend to all of the demos during the last years, but this last few weeks i resisted. i didn't even listen to the demos anymore. so i'm really excited... just as i was before christmas, when i was a kid.
just as i read about myspace, for a second i thought, 'it's official, i could listen to them.', but i gladly resisted.

now i'm off to my record shop. it's opening in less than an hour... finally... it was worth the wait...

[wight gunner]

Tried too, but last night the missus went to bed early and I was all alone, could resist going to my space. Result, after 6 listens through head-phones right the way through it was 5 am before going to bed....

Wow is all I can say, well worth the wait!

[babydolls]

I am holding out till I buy it - its tough as fuck though!  The reason is that the quality of sound on my laptop at home and pc at work are frankly shit and I want to hear it with the best possible sound that I can.  I've been on to the myspace page (with it muted) and been so close to listening to IRS or TWAT, but am trying to hang on for Monday! When I heard Chi Dem when it went to radio the other week it convinced me to hang on for the rest until I could put the vinyl on my record player on Monday - open the champagne and crank it...  I cant read any more reviews or info about the booklet either - soon it will be in my hands!

Will i break over the weekend...?? man oh man!  Planned a weekend full of GnR dvds and records to get me to Monday, whereupon I BUY CHINESE DEMOCRACY! (sorry, its still sinking in...)