Gould 0738 wrote:

Arrogant Worms have a sketch about a Mountie getting accosted by US tourists:

"Where do you keep all those guns?"
"In our tank."
"You have a tank??"
"We didn't WALK here!"
"Where did you get a tank?"
"Wal-Mart"

("The Mountie Song" from Live Bait)

Lloyd Sumpter

Oh oh. There's a career killer for Arrogant Worms. Sheryl Crow CD's were
banished from WalMart for a time due to a similar, one-line reference to the
chain.

Wal Mart admits to ordering record companies to rejacket CD's that they feel
feature graphic elements not consistent with "approved American values" (where
*is* Skipper these days, anyway?). Won't be long until they insist on the right
to censor content, too.

Actually, my previous statement is not quite correct. All they do is inform the
record companies why they feel they need to protect their customers from this
CD cover or that, and suggest how if the cover were changed they would be happy
to order 3-million copies for WalMart stores.
They can't really demand a change, just economically force one.

I'm waiting for an interesting expose on Wal-Mart's pharmacies.



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