Folks scoffed when we noticed Eagles wandering the desert and suggested Baby Boomers unite and ready themselves for Don Henley and Co.'s second amble. Looks like the Eagles of soft rock were even more desirable than we suspected: Long Road Out Of Eden kicked Britney's inadequate mom butt, selling 711,000 copies in its first week. Those are Kanye numbers! (Actually, they're more like 50 Cent numbers.) Remember all that for-sale-only-in-Wal-Mart hubbub? Although according to Eagles website they share that beacon of bad business's "commitment to environmental sustainability," looks like they aren't actually seeing each other exclusively. Via Rock Daily:
We called eight Virgin Megastores in five different states, and discovered seven had Long Road in stock, although none of them had the album prominently listed in their in-store inventory directories. Of the Virgins carrying the album, most started selling it today, one week after the album?s release, while two said they started selling the CDs on October 30th, the same day as the ?exclusive? Wal-Mart on-sale date, with one store even ?selling out? their fairly large stock. The fact that the albums were selling out came as a surprise, considering the CD at Virgin came with price tags ranging from $18.99 to $24.99. While it is a double CD, the price is strikingly higher than Wal-Mart?s tag of $11.88. When we asked one clerk why the album was so expensive at Virgin, and whether the discs might be imports, he whispered into the phone that he ?thinks they were hard to get.? A small record store in Nebraska told us they were re-selling discs that were purchased at Wal-Mart. The question now is, how did Virgin Megastore get their hands on the album, and did these sales contribute to the Eagles? Billboard chart-topping 711,000 copies?
After visiting FreySpace and reading some of the comments, we think the bigger question is when did so many middle-aged people get MySpace accounts?
Oh, one more question: Did anyone catch the guys doing "How Long" on last night's CMAs? We were busy watching folks cover Dylan (more on that later) and missed it.
