Green Day First Band to offer Branded CD-Rs

Green Day has become the first band to offer branded CD-Recordable discs (CD-Rs) to store Green Day music and media files. The five CD-Rs feature full-color artwork from the Green Day albums Dookie, Nimrod, Warning and the recently released American Idiot, as well as rare photos of the band. A coordinated color slimline case is included with each CD-R.

The Green Day CD-R 5 Pack is currently available online at greendaymusic.com for $7.99 plus free shipping. Starting Sept. 28, Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers Green Day's entire catalog digitally, will sell the CD-Rs through Green Day's artist page in iTunes, allowing fans to legally download American Idiot or any of their albums, then burn it to the CD-Rs.

Green Day will also launch an extensive North American tour beginning in October in support of American Idiot, the band’s first new album in over four years. The album includes "Jesus Of Suburbia," a mini rock opera that features such new originals as "I Don't Care," "City of the Damned," "Dearly Beloved" and "Tales Of Another Broken Home," and the title track is currently resting at #1 on the Modern Rock Chart.

Click here to see the CD-Rs: www.greendaymusic.com/gd_store_cdrs.html

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