Dr Pepper swallows hard, looks worried

The one piece of soothing balm for Dr Peppers is that they never pledged to give everybody in America a can of their product if a blog ripped tracks from a ready-for-market copy of Chinese Democracy. It's got to be a proper release to bankrupt them.

Having said which, the now-legally-removed stream of the album seems as if it might be a genuine deal. It would be typical of Rose to go ahead and release the bloody thing, unaware that the only fun on offer is the waiting, not the delivery.

[Thanks to Michael M]