Dr. Pepper can’t believe it either. The soft drink company made a promise to give everybody a free can of Dr. Pepper if Guns N’ Roses actually released the long-awaited Chinese Democracy this year.

“We never thought this day would come,” said Dr. Pepper VP of marketing Tony Jacobs. “But now that it’s here, all we can say is: The Dr. Pepper’s on us.”

Fans can register online at the official Dr. Pepper website to receive a coupon for a free one on November 23rd, the day Democracy is supposedly going to be released. The catch– the complimentary Dr. Pepper was all bottled in 1993, the year GNR last released an album.

I’m kidding. I don’t want to get sued by those bastards like the time I revealed to the world that Dr. Pepper is made out of prunes. Prunes I tell ya! Prunes! DR. PEPPER IS MADE OUT OF PRUNES!

That’s right. Get ready for a new Guns N’ Roses album.

According to Billboard Magazine, Chinese Democracy will be released on Nov. 23rd, exactly 15 years to the day the GNR released their last album, The Spaghetti Incident.

Democracy will only be available at Best Buy on the 23rd, because apparently K-Mart wasn’t rock and roll enough. 

I guess we can’t be too picky. I thought by the time this thing was actually released China would actually be a Democracy, and then we’d have another 20-year delay while Axl Rose came up with a new ironic title.