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Pink Floyd Scrub Post-Waters LPs From Services in Russia, Belarus
UltimateClassicRock ^ | March 11, 2022

Posted on 03/12/2022 8:50:10 PM PST by nickcarraway

Pink Floyd are removing the later era of their catalog from digital music services in Russia and Belarus.

"To stand with the world in strongly condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all of David Gilmour's solo recordings are being removed from all digital music providers in Russia and Belarus from today," the band tweeted Friday.

The three affected Pink Floyd were released after the exit of co-founding bassist Roger Waters: 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1994’s The Division Bell and 2014’s The Endless River.

Gilmour has released four solo records: 1978’s David Gilmour, 1984’s About Face, 2006’s On an Island and 2015’s Rattle That Lock.

Both Gilmour and Waters have spoken out against the invasion. "Russian soldiers, stop killing your brothers," Gilmour tweeted on March 1.

"There will be no winners in this war. My daughter-in-law is Ukrainian and my granddaughters want to visit and know their beautiful country. Stop this before it is all destroyed. Putin must go."

On March 9, Waters responded to a letter from a 19-year-old fan living in Ukraine who'd asked the songwriter to speak out and "tell the world [his] position." Part of his lengthy response, posted on social media, included the following: "I read your letter, I feel your pain, I am disgusted by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it is a criminal mistake, in my opinion, the act of a gangster, there must be an immediate ceasefire. I regret that Western governments are fueling the fire that will destroy your beautiful country by pouring arms into Ukraine, instead of engaging in the diplomacy that will be necessary to stop the slaughter.

"Rest assured if all our leaders don’t turn down the rhetoric and engage in diplomatic negotiations there will be precious little of Ukraine left when the fighting is over."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antisemite; belarus; cancellingrussia; davidgilmour; knowyourfascists; luckyrussians; music; pinkfloyd; rogerwaters; russia; schwabstooges; sorosstooges; ukraine
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There's one reason to move to Russia.
1 posted on 03/12/2022 8:50:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Scrub The Final Cut while you’re at it lol


2 posted on 03/12/2022 8:52:59 PM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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Waters’ argument doesn’t surprise me in the least. Typicl leftist drivel.


3 posted on 03/12/2022 8:53:01 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: nickcarraway

So basically no one cares about albums they never heard of


4 posted on 03/12/2022 8:54:36 PM PST by algore
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Didn’t he use to love Russia?


5 posted on 03/12/2022 8:55:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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There was a video of a Russian Orthodox Priest saying the sanctions were good because the west is infested with satanic forces. He didn’t mention Pink Floyd, but did say losing access to PornHub (I think I got the name right) was a good thing.


6 posted on 03/12/2022 8:57:20 PM PST by packagingguy
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We don’t need no thought control


7 posted on 03/12/2022 8:57:23 PM PST by bigbob
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That’ll show ‘em!


8 posted on 03/12/2022 9:00:28 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Yes...and that’s why he’s telling the Ukrainians to stop fighting and “negotiate”.


9 posted on 03/12/2022 9:04:26 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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Whack jobs. Guess they’ve never heard about rock music sweeping the USSR.


10 posted on 03/12/2022 9:06:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Did Neal Young and Joni Mitchell pull their catalog also?


11 posted on 03/12/2022 9:06:11 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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Dude...you win the internet for the whole day.


12 posted on 03/12/2022 9:10:03 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

What does he know about foreign policy?


13 posted on 03/12/2022 9:14:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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They were always crap and only really hyped by one subculture. I think they should teach us all a good lesson and pull all their recordings everywhere. Maybe they can convince U2 and a bunch of others to go with them. That would fix our wagon for sure.


14 posted on 03/12/2022 9:18:40 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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lol, I could go onto Yandex and still find their music.


15 posted on 03/12/2022 9:25:33 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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But why would you? Why?


16 posted on 03/12/2022 9:25:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
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More virtue signaling.

Yay.


17 posted on 03/12/2022 9:27:19 PM PST by Allegra
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Wow. This is cruel. Those friggin’ Snowflakes are tough. No new Batsh*t movie and now no Pink George Floyd. The lefties are going a little overboard with their punishment of Pooty Pooh Pooh.


18 posted on 03/12/2022 10:02:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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Can you really do anything wrong when

you define the rock

guitar solo?


19 posted on 03/12/2022 10:42:41 PM PST by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To prove the futility of their virtue signal, I suppose.


20 posted on 03/13/2022 1:14:14 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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