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Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak streaming now, out Monday which is one day after Axl Rose releases his

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Kanye West‘s new album 808s & HEARTBREAK is out in stores on Monday 11/24, but will be streaming at MySpace in its entirety as of midnight (pacific time) Friday night/Saturday morning. Monday is a weird release day.

In a move no doubt designed to get a jump on holiday sales (and facilitate maximum one-stop shopping), Island Def Jam announced that it has moved the release date for three of the label’s biggest albums — West’s 808s & Heartbreak, Luda’s Theater of the Mind and the Killers’ Day & Age — from a traditional Tuesday launch up to Monday, November 24. All three albums will be available both digitally and physically on that date.

According to a spokesperson for the label, it’s a “one time only” strategy, which will jump the industry-wide release schedule “in anticipation of big Thanksgiving-weekend holiday gift shopping.”

It bears mentioning that Tuesday release dates have become more and more arbitrary in recent months: Metallica’s Death Magnetic was released on Friday, September 12, AC/DC’s Black Ice hit Wal-Mart shelves on Sunday, October 20, and Guns N’ Roses‘ much-anticipated Chinese Democracy is slated for a Sunday, November 23, release at Best Buy. [MTV]

Chinese Democracy is also now streaming at MySpace.

Meanwhile, people are already making end of year ‘Best Of’ lists.