2 months and counting!

[Knguro]

Since I'll take forever for the CD to arrive to my country,. I'll download it and listen to it in my computer. If I like it, I'll order it on Amazon and wait 3 weeks for it to arrive at my home. If not, hey, at this point I could do without any more DT. 

yeah we know you dont like MM, but download it? come on!

[Zydar]

Pre-order. Hopefully it will come as a Special Edition or something, so I'll be getting that.

[The Silent Cody]

I will preorder ADTOE at rockserwis.pl (Polish most trusted site for those things). I'm not counting on buying it in the mall, or store because they probably won't have it on the release date, and I HAVE TO GOT IT on the release date

[GasparXR]

1 - Preorder on Amazon when it's available (hopefully a special edition)
2 - Get the album
3 - Listen to On the Backs of Angels
4 - Already heard it, but still and Mangini'd
5 - Listen to Build Me Up, Break Me Down
6 - Mangini'd
7 - Listen to Lost Not Forgotten
8 - Mangini'd
9 - Listen to This is the Life
10 - Mangini'd
11 - The Shaman's Trance
12 - Mangini'd like a shaman
13 - Listen to Outcry
14 - Mangini'd, also outcried over multiple manginis
15 - Listen to Far From Heaven
16 - Mangini'd
17 - Listen to Breaking all Illusions
18 - Mangini'd + Myung lyrics
19 - Listen to Beneath the Surface
20 - Mangini'd

Note: steps 3 through 20 I will be Myunging (ie. not talking)

[MasterShakezula]

I'll preorder it and relish my first opportunity to experience the release of a new DT album.

[GasparXR]

I'll preorder it and relish my first opportunity to experience the release of a new DT album.

It's my first too! I started listening to them a little before BC&SL was released, but I wasn't aware of it's release until August (never checked for it on the internet) and then got it as my first DT album in October for my birthday.

[TheSilentHam]

mangini as i open cd case
mangini as i listen
mangini after done listening

roll over, go to bed

Dude...talk about premature manginilation!  You need to learn some techniques, or exercises or something.  I hear high-anxiety is frequently a factor (and also a fairly good movie).

[wammabe]

Preorder
When I get the album, I'll go to my room and start listening
F*CK! Interrupted by my parents.
Start whichever song was playing from the start again.
F*CK!! Interrupted again.
Start the song from the beginning once again.
SH!T! Interrupted!
*Commits Suicide*

That's how I'll get the new album and die.

[Perpetual Change]

1. Plop CD in disc-drive
2. Rip
3. Insert earbuds
4. Wait for room-mate to leave
5. Room-mate leaves
6. Open drawer and pull our secret box of tissues
7. Open new incognito window
8. Type in "dreamtheaterforums.org" and hit enter
9. Turn music on
10. Discuss album while listening to it
11. Mangini

[The Silent Cody]

1. Plop CD in disc-drive
2. Rip
3. Insert earbuds
4. Wait for room-mate to leave
5. Room-mate leaves
6. Open drawer and pull our secret box of tissues
7. Open new incognito window
8. Type in "dreamtheaterforums.org" and hit enter
9. Turn music on
10. Discuss album while listening to it
11. Mangini

What for do You need tissues?

[Zydar]

He'll cry like a baby when he finds out he accidentally got the new Taylor Swift CD. Therefor the tissues.

[Super Dude]

Luckily I won't have trouble getting it from my local CD store because no one likes Dream Theater where I live.

[alirocker08]

1- Pre-order the shit out of that CD
2- Continue living life as normal ignoring the little niggling at the back of my brain...
3- Forcibly push the niggling at the back of my brain away.
4- Retreat into madness, ignoring all school work at this point and failing all of my subjects

Day the CD arrives

5- Sneak down to the cellar to acquire some of the finest wines
6- Tell Dad that I need to borrow the Garage's sound system urgently
7- Get Jon to come round with his copy of the CD
8- Insert CD into disk player
9- Sit down and prepare to Mangini all over Dad's tools and motorbikes
10- Take a sip of the rare vintage whenever I regain control of basic bodily functions such as swallowing.

Repeat steps 1 to 4 in the lead up to Skyrim. I will figure out steps 5 to 10 closer to the time.

[JediKnight1969]

1- Pre-order the shit out of that CD
2- Continue living life as normal ignoring the little niggling at the back of my brain...
3- Forcibly push the niggling at the back of my brain away.
4- Retreat into madness, ignoring all school work at this point and failing all of my subjects

Day the CD arrives

5- Sneak down to the cellar to acquire some of the finest wines
6- Tell Dad that I need to borrow the Garage's sound system urgently
7- Get Jon to come round with his copy of the CD
8- Insert CD into disk player
9- Sit down and prepare to Mangini all over Dad's tools and motorbikes
10- Take a sip of the rare vintage whenever I regain control of basic bodily functions such as swallowing.

Repeat steps 1 to 4 in the lead up to Skyrim. I will figure out steps 5 to 10 closer to the time.

After reading your post, looking at your beautiful face... (with whole respect) Mangini.

[alirocker08]

After reading your post, looking at your beautiful face... (with whole respect) Mangini.

:'D Umm...thanks?

[jonny108]

1- Pre-order the shit out of that CD
2- Continue living life as normal ignoring the little niggling at the back of my brain...
3- Forcibly push the niggling at the back of my brain away.
4- Retreat into madness, ignoring all school work at this point and failing all of my subjects

Day the CD arrives

5- Sneak down to the cellar to acquire some of the finest wines
6- Tell Dad that I need to borrow the Garage's sound system urgently
7- Get Jon to come round with his copy of the CD
8- Insert CD into disk player
9- Sit down and prepare to Mangini all over Dad's tools and motorbikes
10- Take a sip of the rare vintage whenever I regain control of basic bodily functions such as swallowing.

Repeat steps 1 to 4 in the lead up to Skyrim. I will figure out steps 5 to 10 closer to the time.

I agree and disagree with this post!  It clashes with mine 

[alirocker08]

I agree and disagree with this post!  It clashes with mine 

The Garage is where it's at!

[jonny108]

I agree and disagree with this post!  It clashes with mine 

The Garage is where it's at!

Hmmm maybe...it's quite uncomfortable in there  Or my sofa

[Mosh]

What I'm going to do:
1: Go to the CD store the saturday before the album comes out
2: Get it early cause I'm too cool to buy CD's on a weekday
3: Listen to it
4: Eat some food
5: Listen to it again
6: Rock 

[JediKnight1969]

After reading your post, looking at your beautiful face... (with whole respect) Mangini.

:'D Umm...thanks?

My pleasure...

[ghostnotes]

Amazon Prime that mutha!

[Metropolis Pt. II]

1. Call my local record shop and reserve a copy.

2. Go to the shop and pick up the album.

3. Go down to my basement and crank ADTOE on my stereo system with 500 watts per channel.

4. Digest album and repeat step 3.

[DJay32]

fffffff, the first time in sixteen months that a school accepts me, and it just has to start a week before the album comes out. >_> This means I'll have to..

0) Tell my dad to get me the album from some sort of thing the day prior, or maybe just preorder it early.
1) Get up.
2) Fall asleep.
3) Get up.
4) Fall asleep.
5) Be woken up by mum.
6) Quickly get dressed, run out door.
7) Go to school.
8) Do whatever it is kids these days do in school. Probably drugs or something.
9) Come home, hopefully nothing bad happened with step 0 and here's the album.
10) PUT ALBUM IN CD PLAYER.
11) CRANK IT UP TO ELEVEN.
12) Enjoy while writing down all my thoughts in some sort of notepad.

There, that's my Twelve-Step process of what I will do. And yes, I will get the CD legally. The CD, too. None of that iPod stuff that kids these days are so addicted to. I like to get a physical copy of my music.

[GasparXR]

I almost forgot, I will obviously share my thoughts about it during listening, as well as after digesting it a couple times. See how my opinion changes over time.

[Kotowboy]

Buy from HMV. Listen to it.

[Nefyn]

1- Pre-order the shit out of that CD
2- Continue living life as normal ignoring the little niggling at the back of my brain...
3- Forcibly push the niggling at the back of my brain away.
4- Retreat into madness, ignoring all school work at this point and failing all of my subjects

Day the CD arrives

5- Sneak down to the cellar to acquire some of the finest wines
6- Tell Dad that I need to borrow the Garage's sound system urgently
7- Get Jon to come round with his copy of the CD
8- Insert CD into disk player
9- Sit down and prepare to Mangini all over Dad's tools and motorbikes
10- Take a sip of the rare vintage whenever I regain control of basic bodily functions such as swallowing.

I guess you're hoping the album will...

Improve with age

[Super Dude]

[JPX]

I wonder how far in advance iTunes will put samples up. Recently with Iconoclast all the samples were 90 seconds long and out 4 weeks before the release. They definitely gave a significant indication of where a record is going.

[Knguro]

^ i have no idea but if they do i'll wait for the CD special edition release! 

[hefdaddy42]

I most likely won't preorder it unless there is some nifty gimmick to make you want to do so (like my signed litho of the artwork for SC).

[Guitalguy]

I'll probably not preorder it unless there's some special preorder edition or something. I don't like relying on the mail, or risking having to wait longer than necessary. So here it is.

1. Go to school
2. Run like hell down to the mall in the lunch
3. Go back to school, read the booklet and the lyrics while eating lunch
4. Waiting anxiously to get home
5. Get home
6. Lock my door, crank it up to 11
7. Sit and stare at the speakers for approximately 80 mins
8. Repeat step 7 to infinity.

This is the first time i actually wait for a DT release as well, didn't start listening actively until after BCSL... 

[Jaffa]

Technically speaking, I'm not allowed to buy it, because of something I said to Aniland.  So I'm probably just going to pretend my birthday is Septemer 13th and get someone to buy it for me as a gift.

[Tomislav95]

I will get it few week after relase(f**k my un-DT country) from one of the popular sites(Zavvi, Thehut or Amazon). I can't wait for it so what do you say about downloading torrents? Will you hate me because of it?

[jjrock88]

Go to HMV and buy the new Anthrax and DT.........then go home and 

[Jamesman42]

Gonna obtain it this year and listen to it and form an opinion. Hope to have a physical copy before the year's end.