Robin Finck members Josh Freese and Alessandro Cortini. In November 2008 Guns N' Roses' long-awaited album "Chinese Democracy" was released. Finck has a co-writing credit on the song "Better", which was later released as a single. He also played guitar on every track, performed 7 of the guitar solos and has additional credits for keyboards, arrangements and pre-production. He chose to remain with NIN after the album's release and, on March 21, 2009, was officially replaced as the lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses by guitarist DJ Ashba. The official Guns N' Roses website states that "Robin continues to be part of
Guns N' Roses before its official release, the band streamed the entire "Chinese Democracy" album on the group's Myspace page. The album was streamed over three million times, breaking the Myspace record for most streamed album ever. "Chinese Democracy", the band's sixth studio album and its first since 1993's ""The Spaghetti Incident?"", was released on November 22, 2008, in Europe and Australia, in North America on November 23, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2008. The album had an estimated $14 million in production costs, making it the most expensive rock album to ever be produced in music history. It