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The Guardian - UK
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Bobbie Johnson

FAQ: Ban this sick filth!

Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley in 1992. Photograph: Robert Paul/PA
Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley in 1992. Photograph: Robert Paul/PA

If there's one thing the internet loves, it's big ginger singers.

Numero uno, of course, is Rick Astley, but we shouldn't forget Simply Red's Mick Hucknall (very funny, but NSFW).

And now Axl Rose is joining the web's strawberry superstars, by releasing the latest Guns n' Roses album, Chinese Democracy, on MySpace. (yes, the Chinese Democracy that's been brewing since the Chinese invented fireworks).

I'm partial to a bit of Slash air guitar action now and then - but I can't help think that Axl's taken it all a bit far. Was he actually waiting for an entirely new music distribution model to bed in before he could finish the album? Couldn't he just take a lead from Metallica and the Beatles and stay away from my internets?

Calm down.

Anyway, all this is a very roundabout way of approaching this week's Friday Afternoon Question, which is:

If you could remove one thing from the internet, what would it be?

Best answer gets a free Dr Pepper.

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