Comments on: Blogger to Guns N' Roses: Sorry I Shared Your Album. Best Buy to GNR: Sorry We Bought Your Album

By: Welcome to the Jungle! Guns ‘N Roses Accused of Stealing Songs for Pirated Album | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:14:27 +0000

[...] fall, when there was a biggish to-do about the album, and when the band and Universal Music were siccing the federal government on bloggers who posted links to unauthorized MP3s from the [...]

By: Want to Buy a CD in Times Square? Make it Quick: Virgin’s Giving Up | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:36:36 +0000

[...] Plenty of retail executives seem to be asking themselves the same question, and are responding by cutting the small space they’ve devoted to CDs even further. The exceptions: Special promotions for exclusive albums, like Wal-Mart’s (WMT) successful push for the new AC/DC album last year, and Best Buy’s (BBY) unsuccessful gambit with Guns N’ Roses. [...]

By: Carlos Portocarrero

Carlos Portocarrero — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:54:16 +0000

Wow, this is a typical “you saw it coming” type deal. Except Best Buy didn’t see it coming I guess.