this is... i dunno what youd call it lol

[BeBop]

This is aboslutely hilarious in my opionion, as well as some of the replies made to the news post on Yahoo! (this is c yahoo or whoever wrote this)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._evanescence_1

Wal-Mart Sued Over Evanescence CD Lyrics

Fri Dec 10, 5:54 PM ET


By DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press Writer

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - 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.

"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.

Skeens said he and his wife, Melanie, let their daughter buy the music for her 13th birthday and were shocked when they played it in their car while driving home.

Wal-Mart, of Bentonville, Ark., has no immediate plans to pull the CDs from its shelves, spokesman Guy Whitcomb told The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail. He said the company will investigate the allegations. No hearing dates have been set.

"While Wal-Mart sets high standards, it would not be possible to eliminate every image, word or topic that an individual might find objectionable," Whitcomb told the newspaper.

He told the Herald-Mail that the song sample online was censored by Walmart.com, a separate division of Wal-Mart.

Whitcomb didn't return telephone calls Friday from The Associated Press.

The lawsuit also names as defendants Wind-up Records LLC, the New York-based company that recorded the music and decided not to apply parental-advisory stickers; and distributor BMG Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, of New York.

Sony BMG declined to comment on the lawsuit. Wind-up didn't return calls from the AP.

The Skeens' lawyer, Jon D. Pels of Bethesda, said he aims to "take this case national, even if that means going state by state."

He dismissed Whitcomb's suggestion that Wal-Mart stores didn't know about the censored version of the song. "They are a multimillion-dollar corporation and they certainly can communicate among their various entities," he said.

[Dr. Bullet]

Lmao. If all you go by is a sticker on a cd case, you're not too intelligent. I'd be more worried about all the skin they show on their tv's and on the cd cases than the words. I can't go into wal-mart without being bombarded by scantily clad young women singing about their individuality (note that I didn't say I did or did not like it ).

I can't believe they're filing suit for it. If I was the judge, I'd laugh me arse off, then throw it out.

[BeBop]

yeah i really cant believe people nowadays, sueing for anything they can get... its a waste of money and tax dollars to put up with these stupid things...

for one i thing them just trying to file this suit goes against something along the lines of freedom os speech or privacy or somethin like that but hey thats just me....

[Dr. Bullet]

Yup...it's just like those stupid lawsuits against McDonalds. Someone needs to slap those people

[BADDOG]

This "lawsuit" culture does seem to be getting completely out of hand!!!! What next ban Ding Dong Merrily On High because it might have sexual over tones lol????


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