Forget buying the world a Coke. Dr. Pepper is promising a free soda to every man, woman and child in America if what’s left of Guns N’ Roses actually releases Chinese Democracy some time in 2008.GNR started recording the epically stalled album in 1994, and it will allegedly come out later this year. Although everyone’s been saying that since… 1994, basically. Because if 14 years of hype aren’t enough to fuel the album’s release, certainly the promise of a free can of soda is.

Though due to our non-scientific, unofficial research, GNR fans have more of an appetite for hard liquor than a brown non-soda, there’s no reason the road back to “Paradise City” can’t be paved with Dr. P.