Green Day Refuse To Censor Album For Wal-Mart
US chain doesn't stock record after band refuse their terms.
Green Day have explained what's gone on with huge US chain Wal-Mart refusing to stock their new album '21st Century Breakdown'.
The store, which is the largest music retailer in America, wanted the band to censor the record which Green Day refused to do.
Bille Joe explained to Associated Press:
"They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there. We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something.
If you think about bands that are struggling or smaller than Green Day... to think that to get record your out in places like that, but they won't carry it because of the content and you have to censor yourself... I mean, what does that say to a young kid whose trying to speak his mind making a record for the first time? It's like a game that you have to play. You have to refuse to play it."
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