The band who has one of them most popular CD’s in the country is currently in a war of words with Walmart because the store refuses to sell uncensored CD’s from artists and the guys from the band won’t budge. According to AP:
“Wal-Mart’s become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won’t carry our record because they wanted us to censor it,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a recent interview.
While Wal-Mart sells CDs from acts known for raunchy content, including Eminem’s latest, they offer customers the “clean” version of those CDs, which are edited for content that may be objectionable. But in Armstrong’s view, “There’s nothing dirty about our record.” They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there,” he said. “We just said no. We’ve never done it before. You feel like you’re in 1953 or something.”
“As with all music, it is up to the artist or label to decide if they want to market different variations of an album to sell, including a version that would remove a PA rating,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said. “The label and artist in this case have decided not to do so, so we unfortunately can not offer the CD.”
We always side against Walmart….but c’mon guys…
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Too bad I don’t give a fuck.
Walmarts been doing that if they do it for one they gotta do it for all
Maybe Walmart should give their customers a choice rather than making anyone who buys their CDs get censored versions. All it takes is a little sticker and everyone knows that it contains rude words lol.
Anyway, I reckon this is probably just a publicity stunt by Green Day, either way their new album rocks
Agree @ Adam…. except I really don’t like the album.