Have you ever seen a CD...ON WEEEED?

Image above is the original cover. Image below,
the "doctored/approved by Wal-Mart" version.

Seriously, Wal-Mart's going to have to bend down and kiss my big, white ass if they ever expect me to step foot in their stores. Below is the latest on their penchant for "censorship." Doesn't it kill you, that a store that sells guns and ammo finds a picture of the marijuana leaf offensive enough to repackage the CD, to their liking, so it's "fit" to be sold in their store? Well, you know what... I find denim vests offensive...but I'm not going to demand Wal-Mart stop selling them because they're tacky. Frankly, I'm a little pissed at Willie, too, for allowing them to censor him like this. For chrissakes -- it's a reggae CD!!! Nothing goes better with reggae than hash! It's like milk and cookies, Laverne and friggin' Shirley -- shit, it's like Tom Cruise and Scientology, dammit. Yeah -- I said it! --Joan

P.S. Does anyone else find it weird that Willie Nelson is singin' reggae now? Just a thought.

Background from Yahoo News:

"for those looking to snap up the CD at Wal-Mart's famously rolled back prices, the cover features a palm tree in place of the offending leaves, a change made by Universal Music Group Nashville out of deference to the retailing giant's strict guidelines with regards to lyrics and packaging....

Nelson's not the first artist to be edited by Wal-Mart. In the past, musicians have been asked to change lyrics in order to be stocked on the retailer's shelves, and Wal-Mart once refused to carry a Sheryl Crow album because it contained a song with lyrics about children killing each other with guns purchased at the store. [Go here: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=1049]

The retailer also pulled Prodigy's 1997 album, Fat of the Land, from shelves after deeming the lyrics to "Smack My Bitch Up" too offensive by its standards.

Despite the toned-down cover art, Wal-Mart shoppers can rest assured that the contents of Countryman remain unaltered."