Posted on 05/21/2009 10:06:40 AM PDT by GSWarrior
NEW YORK (AP) — Green Day has the most popular CD in the country, but you won't be able to find it at your local Wal-Mart.
The band says the giant superstore chain refused to stock its latest CD, "21st Century Breakdown," because Wal-Mart wanted the album edited for language and content, and they refused.
"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.
Guitarist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."
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He’s STILL an American Idiot.
Time of Your LIfe is a good song. Glen Campbell covered it on the CD he released last year.
They were always lame.
Green Day: Overrated and undertalented.
Your point is well taken; however, Walmart is the world’s largest seller of prerecorded music. Personally I don’t buy their stuff there because they carry a bunch of crap I would never listen to intentionally (with the possible exception of the last AC/DC disc).
Wal-Mart has been doing this for years. Their policy isn’t going to change. This is nothing more than Green Day trying to get some publicity for their new album.
“Time of Your LIfe”
Not to nitpick, guys, but the actual title of this song is “Good Riddance.”
We aren’t supposed to remembers that Al Gore burned records (figuratively). Frank Zappa’s kids sure forgot and endorsed him for prezident.
They were pretty rebellious back then, one year (our Sophomore year) they got mad at our band director and "went on strike", it got them kicked out of band. Then our band director got fired for stealing funds so they came back the next year.
You and your band had the choice to either edit your CD to meet Wal-Mart's request, or not. You chose "not".
Isn't free enterprise grand?!
>>RECORDS
As far as I’m concerned a “record” is short for “recording”
and, while people may associate it with 33, 44, or 78 rpm
vinyl, technically a CD, cassette, 8 track, mp3 file, etc is a record. A record-ing.
You sir, are correct.
They just became more lame.
How much music does Amazon.com sell? Do digital downloads count a “pre-recorded music”?
yes...and punker Eric Boucher—er, Jello Biafra—attacked
Tipper and the other “Senator’s wives” of the PMRC on his
spoken word records.
Like I said, they don't object when radio stations edit bleep out the dirty words in their songs. Lots of artists release cleaned up versions of their music.
thats exactly the time I stop listening...
I even burned my 1 greatest hits cd. well I microwaved it but same difference.
It’s like dialing a phone. The term meant one thing and became bastardized.
An album was originally an “album” of 78s or 45s (in a book or box). After 78s, you had to pick betwen 45rpm or 33rpm players (different companies backed the two formats).
We now call them “boxed sets” of CDs. Even though THOSE are albums of CDs.
And as there is no packaging for an mp3 digital download, there can only be “virtual albums” of mp3s.
Looks like emo high school kids.
At least they didn’t do to Green Day what K-Mart did to Spinal Tap.
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