Now that the Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy has actually materialized, the soft drink maker Dr. Pepper is living up to a special promise to hand out free soda, according to an Associated Press report.
Dr. Pepper said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album was released in 2008. Chinese Democracy, notoriously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale today.
“We never thought this day would come,” Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper’s vice president of marketing, was quoted as saying. “But now that it’s here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper’s on us.”
Beginning at 12:01 this morning, coupons for a free 20-ounce soda were made available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper’s Web site. They’ll be honored until February 28.
MusicVixen says...
The free Dr. Pepper is certainly more appetizing than this awful new Guns'n'Roses album. Hopefully the band will come up with something better"”in less than 16 years!
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[...] Kevin Cogill’s punishment does not include prison time, nor does it include being forced to repeatedly listen to that horrible Guns’n’Roses CD–which would’ve been a pretty good punishment since the only good thing about that album was the free Dr. Pepper. [...]