Axl Rose spotted buying a new BMW in So. Cal!

Sweden’s biggest newspaper Aftonbladet reports in today’s edition that GUNS N’ ROSES’ reclusive singer Axl Rose was spotted the other day at a BMW dealership in Santa Monica, California. According to the newspaper’s source, Rose bought a luxury equipped black BMW Z8 Roadster. The price was 1.2 million Swedish krona (roughly $150,000).

As previously reported, GUNS N’ ROSES’ "Greatest Hits" collection, which was originally issued in March of 2004, sold 38,000 copies in the United States last week alone, bringing the total number of copies sold since its release to 2.65 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Rose, along with Slash and ex-bassist Duff McKagan, tried to block the release of "Greatest Hits" with a lawsuit, claiming that the record label had assembled the CD without their input. The band’s label, Geffen Records, insisted that it was forced to put out a greatest hits album since Axl Rose had failed to deliver the long-delayed new GUNS album, "Chinese Democracy".