Bob Dylan performs at The Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas, Aug. 4, 2009.
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Bob Dylan will pull a "U2-esque" move, only on a much smaller scale.

The recording artist will be giving away 50,000 compact disc copies of his new album to AARP The Magazine readers as a way of promoting it, according to an Advertising Age report from Thursday. "If it was up to me, I'd give you the records for nothing, and you could give them to [every reader of your] magazine," Dylan told AARP The Magazine, the report said.