But wait! That's not the whole reason why (although if my daughter* ever requested such a record she'd be staying with gran for the rest of her childhood). The girl's parents took offence to the fruity language on Anywhere But Home, and to the fact that Wal-Mart was selling a record that the chain itself had previously stated it wouldn't - a record with BAD LANGUAGE. Make sense? You need me to tell you about Tipper Gore? No? Good.
The album wasn't stickered with one of those 'Warning - this'll make your kids call you a c*nt and steal your booze and money out of your wallet etc etc' labels, so righteous daddy Trevin Skeens is now demanding a whopping $74,500 in damages from the chain, the band's label Wind Up and its parent label BMG. Apparently the bad words were censored on the supermarket's website, which he says means they were aware of the bad language, but sold the record to him regardless. What c*nts.
We say: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET A GRIP.
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescene's potty mouths
Just such a shame they produce top-notch bands (not all of them) or else i'd be calling for a nice bit of napalm to be heading their way for xmas - with a nice sparkly bow on top of course, i'm not that cold-hearted.
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescene's potty mouths
I didn't particularly have a problem with the 'Parental Advisory' sticker scheme... a great way to indicate to teenagers that this is a record they REALLY want! As to any legal liability...depends who's decision it was to sticker/not sticker the album.
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescene's potty mouths
no, of course they don't. but it's a nice opportunity to make some money, isn't it?
america, the land of opportunity.
xxx
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescene's potty mouths
If the case hasn't already been judged, I just hope the judge uses some kind of common sense and tells these fucktards to cunt off. In those words. After all, this is the culture that requires 'contains nuts' to be applied to jars of peanut butter. I'd just love to be in the courtroom when someone tries to sue Sunpat for not informing them that their product contains nuts and as such their little Billy has died of a nut allergy. The judge would just laugh in their face.
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
I'm waiting for the lawsuit following the Damageplan gig - not because the guy could easily get a gun, but because Pantera once wrote a song called 'F***ing Hostile'... I mean that has to be the reason it happened, surely?
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
The next stage of this super tax will be for people to donate body parts and give blood in exchange for records featuring sexual content.
And don't let it stop there, why not make people buying records by sell out chav bands play a game of russian roulette?
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
1) His daughter shouldn't be allowed to listen to Evanescence records.
2) He's going to take $71,500 out of a multinational corporation. What's wrong with that? To paraphrase Fletcher out of Porridge, we cannot defeat capitalism, but we can claim 'little victories', like not paying on trains.
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Fuck Censorship.
Insanity is here!
And what, may I ask, is wrong with Evanescence? Sure they cuss, but EVERY-FUCKING-BODY does. See, I just did? Are ya gonna sue me now? Fuckfuckityfuckfuckfuck.
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
they should run one of those holocausts through america. ask a simple question - 'would you ever sue?' if yes, burn baby. burn.
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
*I don't have a daughter.
There you go.
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
There's one thing further with this case. As the lawsuit launched by Skeens (the parent) is a class-action suit, if this lawsuit hits court and goes all the way, anyone who bought the CD from Wal-Mart, can prove it in a court of law and who claims that they were morally outraged by the use of the word 'fuck', they too can claim a nice round sum of money too, potentially the same amount of money that Skeen is seeking. That could cost Wal-Mart a shitload of money through the opportunistic types.
Taking money out of a multinational like Wal-Mart through suits like this doesn't hurt Wal-Mart because they'll end up sacking 'home' workers and employing more 'illegal aliens' who work for a shit-awful wage. Wal-Mart only does things ot make it money, hence the decision to allow workers unions in its operations in China. China applied the pressure and Wal-Mart couldn't take the chance of being blacklisted by a country that is so integral to its 'cheap goods for you, the Yank consumer=big profits for us fat cunts up top' modus operandi. Workers in the US have no chance of a union and frankly get shat upon daily. That's the wonderful double-standard of Wal-Mart, your friendly shopping experience. How do you like your morals served, toasted or irregular?
Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths
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i used to make them doughnuts, i would advise you to cease consumption right about now.
Bad ju ju.