We really thought we had seen some crazy marketing and PR schemes diehard Guns’N’Roses fans in our time, but Dr Pepper just one-upped everyone. Chinese Democracy, the G’n’R album that’s been in the works for over a decade, was supposed to be released about a year ago, was shelved (i mean, come on…if his people are telling him that going out in public looking like an albino Milli Vanilli is OK, can we really expect them to get it together to put out an album?). Axl is apparently sitting on that shelf with no intention of getting up. So, Dr. Pepper has offered a free can of their soda to everyone in America if the album comes out in 2008 (excluding Slash & Buckethead….I mean, I know they had their differences, but are you really going to tell Slash he can’t have a can of soda when he comes knockin’? And he will. Trust me). They even have a blog to go along with their offer. This would be even better, but we can settle for soda.