The other day I told a co-worker "really, aren't we all working on a version of Chinese Democracy?" This totally bummed him out, because just like the War on Drugs, the Trix Rabbit, Wile E. Coyote, the Cubs and the Iraq War, I was implying that we are each involved in a never-to-be-fulfilled quest that cannot be abandoned. Work in general is like that. I mean, why else would they keep handing you money in exchange for it?
Well, maybe I shouldn't be so gloomy. I guess we could have our very own 2004 World Series too.
By the way, a Mortimer dollar says the album is not released in 2008. Any takers?
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As an economist,you should be appalled at the talkback to the Geffen article. Several posters discuss how they can make it economically feasible to release an album that costs $14 million to make as if that might delay the release.
The posters are writing as if there is a decision to release the album or not based upon the cost to date. That $14 million is a sunk cost and is gone whether the album is released or buried. At this point, any recuperation of costs will only diminish the cost to the studio.
But I guess we cannot expect anyone who is writing about "Chinese Democracy" in 2008 to have anything useful to say to society.
(uncomfortably staring at my screen...)
The funny thing is that I could totally see Geffen going "Axl will probably want to have a video and all kinds of other promotion on this disc and we won't even make the promotional money back. Screw it, here you go Axl. It's all yours, promote it yourself." See Wilco circa Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
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