hey as long as it's only Wal-Mart. Their guitars are crap.

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YOU SAID IT, SUPRO! +1 MILLION
AS A UNION STEWARD AT MY SCHOOL, I CRINGE WHENEVER I READ ABOUT WALMART'S TREATMENT OF ITS EMPLOYEES. FOR ALL THEIR PRO-AMERICA STANCE, AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE ANTI-AMERICAN AND AGAINST THE VERY IDEALS OUR FOUNDING FATHERS FOUGHT FOR.

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This isn't even about Green Day it's about the Walmart mentality and censorship. I you don't want your kids to listen to it, make sure they don't have. Too many parents are afraid to parent. They want to be their friends. My son turned out just fine. As long as he was living in our home, I tried to instill values and respect. People are amazed even today how genuinely polite and caring he is.
I don't know where you live and it may be different, but in my area, just outside of Phila Pa., Walmart employees are the most miserable people I've ever seen.

I too was a Shop Steward for many years for the Machinist Union. This crap just bakes my cookies. Read 1984.

I have boycotted Walmart for a long time now...They Suck!

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Well said! Couldn't agree more!! If there has to be someone to edit what I hear, (and there doesn't have to be anyone other than me), it sure isn't going to be a two-faced retailer like Walmart!!!!!

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Well said! Couldn't agree more!! If there has to be someone to edit what I hear, (and there doesn't have to be anyone other than me), it sure isn't going to be a two-faced retailer like Walmart!!!!!

Gridlok

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Hey I have to admit I have bought a lot of Ammunition there.

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It's a shame more vendors don't stand up to them. They made Tupper Ware so dependent on them that when they cut back on orders, they had to shut down their original plant. Walmart is a big reason american manufacturing is moving over seas. They tell the vendors they have to meet Their bottom line, so they have to go to China or loose them as a customer.

Not a fan of wal-mart since they stopped selling ammo, BUT I really don't understand why bands have to include some much vulger into lyrics.

Maybe i'm just getting old or just that I hear swearing all day where I work ( Corrections Officer ) But I'd rather not hear so much.

Anyway I Don't like Green Day's music..

You see Adam. You have the freedom not to listen to it. You don't have someone Telling you you Can't listen to it. I like a couple of their songs and I'm not a kid, I'm over 50. Our young men and women in the armed services fought and many died for the freedoms we have today. What gives some huge company the right to take our freedoms away or alter the way we do things?

They didn't tell you you couldn't listen to it. They didn't take any of your freedom away. You can still buy the album....just not at Walmart. They made a corporate decision not to carry CDs that have PG labels. THAT IS THEIR RIGHT. Just as it's Green Day's right to NOT change their lyrics to sell CDs there. The military members you mention died as much for Walmarts freedom to not carry the CD as for Green Day's freedom to not sell it.

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No I do agree with you on freedom, I served 4 years with The Marine Corps - But one of my kids listens to rap and It's just too much for my wife and I to hear coming from his room, Hey I was a hippie in the 60's and early 70's so I was no angel but really alot of anger in what I'm hearing that my younger son need not hear.

I do go to wall-mart for the 5 qt containers of motor oil no one else sells.

Hey thats the way to stand up to the man.Greenday is really the only punk band I like.Billy Joe is a good writer and I like the fact that I read he tries to improve as a player that is why they hired another guitarist.There are only a handful of bands that could get away with this for the cause of artistic freedom and not sell out,as a lesser group would probably have to cave in.This reminds me of when PEARL JAM took on ticket master.And for those who dont like the band you have to tip your hat to them on taking a stance for what they believe in.TO ME THATS ROCK AND ROLL

Not selling the CD and requiring you to change the lyrics to satisfy Walmarts twisted corporate family values in censorship period and an erosion of the artists rights and freedoms.

Walmart/Sams Club (same people) is a monopoly in my area that has severely damaged small and large businesses in my area. I personally know vendors in my area that supply Walmart with products that have been severely damaged by their bullying tactics. Where they made dollars in product profits, they now make pennies. They are the largest retailer in the country and possibly the world. It's not like a Mom & Pop record shop deciding not to sell an artist because they don't like them.

When it comes to intellectual property, especially music, Walmart's monopoly ceases to exist anywhere there is Internet access.

I agree that Walmart's phony "family" values are enough to gag a buzzard off a shitwagon, as is their relentless endeavor to corner the market on cheap Chinese crap that falls apart after you own it for a year. Personally, I wouldn't spend a dollar in a Walmart if I was starving and the greeter was handing out fried chicken.

But it is their right to refuse to carry the CD, and Green Day sees no reason to knuckle under... a while back, they even sold blank CD-Rs printed with Green Day art so you could burn your own compilation albums!

With the changes in the delivery system, physical media is on life support.