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.
1 posted on
05/21/2009 10:06:40 AM PDT by
GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
Deal wid it heathen Green Day
2 posted on
05/21/2009 10:07:27 AM PDT by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: GSWarrior
I hate Green day....if Walmart doesn’t want to sell there “garbage” so what......free market baby!
To: GSWarrior
I hate Green day....if Walmart doesn’t want to sell there “garbage” so what......free market baby!
To: GSWarrior
I’m guessing there were a few f-bombs and anti-family messages in the lyrics?
5 posted on
05/21/2009 10:08:42 AM PDT by
John123
(The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
To: GSWarrior
When American Idiot came out I thought ok Billy Joe, guess you want to insult your biggest market huh wanker.
7 posted on
05/21/2009 10:09:18 AM PDT by
doodad
To: GSWarrior
To: GSWarrior
they have the 1st amendment, and Walmart has the right to sell what they want.
so shut your yacks, money monkeys.
“if walmart has a duty to xyz” then perhaps you have a duty to not turn kids into foulmouthed scum? see how it can work both ways?
To: GSWarrior
they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art Moron
10 posted on
05/21/2009 10:10:37 AM PDT by
fml
To: GSWarrior
The only song by these twerps I thought was decent was “Time of Your Life”... I heard in on the Seinfeld finale. But I just can’t get myself to buy a CD from guys wearing heavy doses of mascara.
11 posted on
05/21/2009 10:10:37 AM PDT by
theDentist
(qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspell.)
To: GSWarrior
why don’t these fake punk losers who get booed at Gilman St. just tell people to download their album for free instead of going to Walmart?
12 posted on
05/21/2009 10:11:05 AM PDT by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: GSWarrior
We invested in Starbucks and Wal-Mart Monday. I’m happy with both companies, but I wish SBUX would open up a dividend.
13 posted on
05/21/2009 10:11:14 AM PDT by
bvw
To: GSWarrior
“The have to sell our record, they have an obligation as the nations biggest record store.”
What a little pussy wimp. He doesn’t understand anything.
14 posted on
05/21/2009 10:11:20 AM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: GSWarrior
>>Wal-Mart said that it’s the company’s long-standing policy not to stock any CD with a __parental advisory sticker__.
Thank Tipper Gore for that, libs.
To: GSWarrior; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; ...
Guitarist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art." They aren't the biggest "record store in the world".
They are a department store.
A record store (A) sells RECORDS (they are still manufactured) and (B) sells primarily music albums and related materials and (C) typically sells albums beyond what is in the Billboard top 20.
16 posted on
05/21/2009 10:11:32 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: GSWarrior
A new administration comes into power and he’s still railing against Boosh and Christians. And now Wal-Mart.
19 posted on
05/21/2009 10:12:38 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: GSWarrior
Green Day: Overrated and undertalented.
24 posted on
05/21/2009 10:14:29 AM PDT by
Fresh Wind
(Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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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.
27 posted on
05/21/2009 10:15:25 AM PDT by
pepperhead
(Kennedys float, Mary Jos don't)
To: GSWarrior
LOL, I went to High School with them. They were actually our drum section in band but Billy played guitar in jazz band. Back then they were called “Broken Condom”. Most of the kids loved them because they were playing clubs in San Francisco, but most of us who knew them didn't think they were going anywhere...boy were we wrong.
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.
30 posted on
05/21/2009 10:16:22 AM PDT by
txroadkill
(The Internet is all about me)
To: GSWarrior
Hey, Billy Joe, as a non-Gubmint-owned Company (so far), Wal-Mart has the right to sell, or not sell, the CDs of their choosing. Despite the potential loss in sales by not selling the CD of a popular band, Wal-Mart has made a business decision.
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?!
To: GSWarrior
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.
43 posted on
05/21/2009 10:29:27 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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