Want a free McFly album? Well, here’s a one-time offer for you – buy this week’s Mail on Sunday (20th July 2008) and you’ll find a copy of their new CD radio:ACTIVE bundled inside!

Copying Prince’s giveaway of his Planet Earth album, the scruffy-haired four-piece are taking this new approach to promoting their record since splitting with their record company (Island Records) earlier this year. And while we doubt it’ll be quite the event that the Purple One’s release was, we still applaud McFly for not toeing the record company line!

Apparently the band split with Island after they advised them to write more relaxed songs. Tom Fletcher recently said:

We always wanted to be bigger and better and we never felt that we had achieved our true potential so we felt that we could get closer to achieving that on our own.

They wanted to take us in a direction that we really didn’t want to go in. They wanted us to be a bit more chilled out and more subdued, but that is not who we are. We like having a laugh and felt we were being pushed in a direction we really didn’t want to go in.

A deluxe edition of radio:ACTIVE is due to hit the shops on 8th September, including four bonus tracks, a DVD and a 32 page booklet. The first single from the new album is One For The Radio, which was released on 14th July.