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How not to do a PR stunt: Dr Pepper offers free soda when Axl Rose finally releases "Chinese Democracy," but its Web site crashes. Rose accuses the company of an "appalling failure to make good on a promise," which only reminds us of all those years he promised to release the album, but didn't.

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