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It's taken Axl Rose (and a host of accompanying musicians) 19 years to come up with new material and many said it would never see the light of day but Guns'n Roses new album Chinese Democracy is finally out on Monday, is being streamed in it's entirety on their myspace page. On first listen, although not sounding dated, it's a bit hit and miss – there are some really, really good bits and Prostitute (which I heard online before) is an absolute classic, but there's a just a few too many ideas crammed in, often within the same song (great for a mashup), so it seems a bit all over the place. But it was just a first listen so maybe it will grow on me, there's certainly enough in there to warrant more listens. Was it worth the long, long wait? Make up your own mind and check it out and let us know what you think. 

It’s one thing to share an album that has
already been released, which is illegal because it constitutes
copyright infringement. However, it’s an entirely different matter to leak unreleased material, as a poster who goes by the nom de blog "Skwerl" on the Antiquiet
blog discovered on Monday, when two "Mulder and Scully types" tracked
him down at his workplace and questioned him about where he obtained
the nine unreleased Guns n’ Roses tracks that he distributed on his
website, pictured to the right.

The agents visited him at his home in California at 7am Tuesday morning, according to Rolling Stone. "I wasn’t sure if they were going to come by with a warrant and trash the place, like in the movies,’ said Skwerl. ‘It
was nothing like that."

The "Mulder and Scully types" wanted to see the original files, which
Skwerl had obtained from an undisclosed source. However, he had already
deleted them per Axl Rose’s legal staff. So he directed them to copies
of the songs that were copied all over the internet after his blog
first posted them in a zip file. [continue reading @ Wired's Listening Post]