Wal-Mart Sued Over Evanescence CD Lyrics

[g-smooth2k]

Source: NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Wal-Mart-Evanescence.html)

Maryland Couple Sues Wal-Mart to Censor Evanescence Lyrics on CD It Sells or Stop Selling It

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which promotes itself as a seller of clean music, deceived customers by stocking compact discs by the rock group Evanescence that contain the f-word, a lawsuit claims.

The hit group's latest CD and DVD, ``Anywhere But Home,'' don't carry parental advisory labels alerting potential buyers to the obscenity. If they did, Wal-Mart wouldn't carry them, according to the retailer's policy.

But the lawsuit claims Wal-Mart knew about the explicit lyrics in the song, ``Thoughtless,'' because it censored the word in a free sample available on its Web site and in its stores.

The complaint, filed Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court, seeks an order requiring Wal-Mart to either censor or remove the music from its Maryland stores. It also seeks damages of up to $74,500 for each of the thousands of people who bought the music at Wal-Marts in Maryland.


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[Carrie]

Wal-Mart to either censor or remove the music from its Maryland stores. It also seeks damages of up to $74,500 for each of the thousands of people who bought the music

``I don't want any other families to get this, expecting it to be clean. It needs to be removed from the shelves to prevent other children from hearing it,'' said plaintiff Trevin Skeens of Brownsville.

People like this make me sick. There are no words to describe how angry these people make me.

Did these people pay that much for the CD? NO! W(hy)TF should they be entitled to that much in return? How hard is it to exchange, or get a refund for the damned thing? Don't feed me the BS of all CD sales being final either. There are exceptions to that rule, this being one of them.

Is $74,000 going to erase the fact that their daughter heard it????? NO! Did this truly mess this kid up? NO! As I have said before, chances are this kid hears or uses these words every damned day at school, and around her friends. She is 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Good God, if she was a jewish boy she would be an adult.

People like this are big contributers to our shitty economy. I really hope that one day soon, the courts will wise up, and judge against these people. Put a stop to these senseless lawsuits that are ruining our economy.:fist: :censored: :argue: :hit: :bang