I Pre-ordered Bon Jovi's 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong and had to wait a whole month, that was getting up everyday waiting, for a month....(i was 13 and it was the first bon jovi album id get, id only heard Blaze of Glory and seen the Wembley DVD up to that point)
because theyd pushed the release back by two weeks, and then the postal service went on strike.
when it arrived i sat there for 3 hours listening to every single song on those CDs.
although, i pre-ordered Stone Sours Come What(ever) May and got that the day it was released, so it all worked out...