diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bcde4cfbacf2ff6fc72f6f1dfff90ca851e620dc..a5325cb7d99593b1bffbc66fb47d74b595c8d3b7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     , "postprocess": "0.0.3"
     , "urlparse": "0.0.1"
     , "uglifycss": "0.0.4"
-    , "node-statsd": "https://github.com/lloyd/node-statsd/tarball/085b93"
+    , "node-statsd": "https://github.com/downloads/lloyd/node-statsd/3a73de.tgz"
     , "connect-logger-statsd": "0.0.1"
     , "semver": "1.0.12"
     , "compute-cluster": "0.0.4"