BEATLEMANIA HAD NOTHING ON THIS

A few weeks ago I popped into HMV on my way to work, at around 8 in the morning. Clearly, I wasn't the only one anxious to get to work because there were a number of people in the store. But they weren't buying anything - well not anything in the store. They were pre-ordering the new INXS CD. Two. Weeks. Early.

Are these INXS fans really that die hard that after waiting 11 years for a new album, they can't wait the two more weeks? Or have people's music purchasing habits sunk to such a new low that they are pre-ordering a CD of a band that had to find its new lead singer on reality TV?

Then again, I was there to buy the new U2 DVD that came out that day. At. 8. AM. Only because I didn't leave close enough to an HMV to buy it at midnight the day before.