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Hoping to cash in on the big Thanksgiving buying spree, Island Def Jam will release their three big albums of the winter — the Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak and Ludacris’ Theater of the Mind — on Monday, November 24th, a day before their previously scheduled shelf date. The move shakes the decades-old norm of releasing a new album on Tuesday. We’re not entirely sure what dropping the albums one day earlier will do, especially considering how the “Black Friday” sales weekend doesn’t begin until November 28th, but Island might be hoping to jump on the lucrative coattails of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy, which will hit shelves exclusively in Best Buy on November 23rd. And just in case you want to avoid the shopping masses that week, the three albums will also be released digitally on November 24th.
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