Green Day lashes out at Wal-Mart policy

Associated Depressed ^ | 5/21 | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY

[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."

[a fool in paradise]

Looks like eternal adolescents who still think they know it all and get all preachy.

[GSWarrior]

I was a concert recently and one of the performers said they had mp3s for sale in the back. I thought it was funny.

[KarlInOhio]

Guitarist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."

Sorry, Mike. I do not you have the time to listen to you whine about nothing and everything all at once.

[dennisw]

As far as punk music goes these guys are old and in the way

[astyanax]

Did they have the fake British accent back then?

[Jack Wilson]

I notice that Green Day didn’t use any of my compositions on it’s album. Why are they censoring me?

[GSWarrior]

To be completely nitpicky, shouldn’t it be “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”

[dfwgator]

If Joe Strummer were still alive he’d probably whack Billie Joe on the head with his guitar.

[Niteranger68]

Green Day is a well-oiled money making enterprise playing under the guise of anti-establishment. Billy Joe Armstrong has no problem with radio editing the content of his songs. And no, Mike Dirnt, Wal-Mart is under no obligation to stock your product. Censorship is the government forcing you to change your content. Anyway, Green Day was better when they were snotty punks aping the Buzzcocks. The strain of trying to become a "band with an important message" has revealed the sophomoric nature of their lyrics.

Roger that. Green Day sucks...

[txroadkill]

LoL, no. and the sad part is they are the most successful people to come out of our High School, and they never graduated. We were listed as the “performing arts school in our district and our band sucked, I’m not sure if we had a choir, but we did put on pretty lame Broadway shows.

[DustyMoment]

"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.

Cry me a river. Is Green Day the new name of the Dixie Twits??

[dennisw]

The Clash were good and got a real fervor going where I lived. The fan base for Green Day was always more unthinking and complacent

[dfwgator]

I liked The Clash, because even though you knew they were leftists, their lyrics were left open to where even a Conservative could get it. It was about asserting your rights, and standing up to authority, something that definitely conservatives can relate to these days.

[doodad]

Touche sir.

He was dumbstruck, color him stupid.

[relictele]

Since Green Day have elected to cross the line from entertainment and commentary to out-and-out preaching and advocacy (following the likes of U2 et al) then perhaps Billie Joe should know that ‘editing’ is not the same as ‘censorship.’

Censorship involves the government. When will these self-important types understand that basic phrase?

[txroadkill]

This is them performing as Broken Condom at our school, I think it was a Cultural Food festival that we had to raise money for our Senor Ball. The theme of our Ball, by the way, was "Time of our Lives" which partially inspired "Good Riddance"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7vFqcZsEeU

[Obadiah]

Green Day’s Wal*Mart bashing song...in 3...2...1

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Never shop at WalMart. The stores are too filthy for my tastes.

[raccoonradio]

Indeed and I don’t know how many people know how the “album” word came about. And of course radio and TV itself:
“Don’t touch that DIAL”. Not a dial anymore, necessarily.

[Mister Muggles]

Green day = Mascara clown idiot punk posse