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Submitted by JohnnyFree on Thu, 2009-05-21 20:20
Yes! There are still some balls left in America - the land of the free. Green Day, one of the world's best-selling bands has refused to allow Wal-Mart to stock their CD because they want to censor it.
"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."
I'm really glad they stood up to Wal Mart. How can art be censored? I hope that someday that monopoly will topple to the ground.
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