Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Black Monday

Island Def Jam has three of the most anticipated albums of the year, and the label has decided to jumpstart the Thanksgiving shopping week by releasing the three of them on Monday, a day earlier than the traditional CD release date of Tuesday.

(Interscope's Guns n' Roses is releasing "Chinese Democracy" on Sunday.)

The three albums are: Kanye West's "808's and Heartbreak," Ludacris' "Theater of the Mind" and The Killers' "Day & Age." Kanye and Ludacris are sure to be big sellers, and Tke Killers too, even though I've heard rumors that people will be boycotting The Killers because the lead singer is Mormon. (No joke. The Prop 8 protestors are serious.)

The albums will also be available for purchase on digital Web sites on Monday, too.

Look for Kanye (above) to be No. 1. If he's not, I don't think he'll be able to handle it, with him being the voice of our generation and all.

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David Burger is the pop music/pop culture writer at The Salt Lake Tribune. He's been at several newspapers, including Scranton, Pennsylvania, the home of "The Office." Before that, he spent five years in the Coast Guard. There, on boring midnight watches on the bridge, he would try to keep himself awake and/or keep from throwing up by singing "Thunder Road" to himself while balancing a sextant on his nose. (He'd also look for drowning people, of course.) He also likes condiments, except when throwing up.

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