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HAGERSTOWN, MD. - Retail giant Wal-Mart is being sued for selling an album by Evanescence that includes the f-word.

The suit, filed in a Maryland court, alleges that Wal-Mart sold the CD – which did not have a parental-advisory sticker – knowing the profanity is used in one of the songs.


Wal-Mart has cultivated an image, derided by some as being overly intrusive, of being a family friendly retailer by not selling albums with the warnings.

According to the suit, filed by Maryland resident Trevin Skeens, Wal-Mart censored the song in question, Thoughtless, when it offered a free sample of the tune on its website.

Skeens and his wife allowed their 13-year-old daughter to purchase the album, called Anywhere but Home, for her 13th birthday and were shocked when they listened to it on the drive home from the store.

"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," the Associated Press reported Skeens saying.

The suit seeks $74,500 U.S. in damages for each person who bought the album without knowing about the profanity.

dear god, people need to get a life. i mean i hate wal-mart and all, but suing them for selling you a CD with an f-word in it?? fucking morons....

fuckity fuck fuck dumbass'...

stupid walmart!

why stupid walmart? stupid parents for suing wal-mart for all that money just because they heard the f-word once. I'm pretty sure the kid hears worse at school.

"i don't want other families to buy this cd" = "i want $74,500"

yes .. because the damage done is worth 74500 dollars.

A) Wal-Mart should quit being so family friendly in its promotion cause it promotes shit like this

B) Whatever happened to decency. What happened to the good ol days where you notice something wrong and go inform the people about it and give them a chance of fixing it, not finding every excuse in the world to sue someone and make some money out of it .. I'm sure people's horror over something wasn't big enough to warrant such a hefty amount! Can't expect someone to listen to every CD now, can you?

i concur....people are just idiots sometimes.

Oh no, our children cannot ever listen to any songs that contain profanity, especially the dreaded f-word! It will warp their fragile minds. We can't teach them profanity, and we might as well cut out the outside world completely, or they'll become drug addicts who have sex at 13 and get drunk all the time.

Idiots.

i think i'll sue the internet because i saw an F-word on it. i'm scarred for life and only $74,500 can save me

ooooh, was it the parents!?!?! :evil: :evil:

wow.......

Wow. What people will sue for these days...

yep, ignorant greedy morons who use any excuse to sue someone. i bet they use more swear words around their kids than were on that CD. they should sue themselves now.

The parents are also suing the record label and sony BMG for it.

i would really love to he bitch man slap those parents for being money hungry, sue happy idiots.

I'm going with "stupid Wal-Mart" on this one.

They are the idiots that took to santizing the records. They wouldn't be in this situation if they took that step to "guarantee" your music is sanitized.

I love how hypocritical Wal-Mart is. You can buy a movie with nudity and swear words in it there, but they'll be damned if you'll get a CD with a naughty word. What kind of sense does that policy make?

They set themselves up with their assinine policy.

Fuck Wal-Mart!

All in favor of replacing the mascot happy face with a drunken, smoking pissed off face!

So you agree with the parents on this one? Don't you find that the parents are taking this a little too seriously considering the kid (13 friggin years old) hears much worse at school. I know the little 7 and 8th graders at my school are swearing at every 2 words but when their parents are around it's all hush hush.

yeah wal-mart is pretty retarded, and are hypocrites for allowing swearing in DVD's but not CD's but it makes me sick to my stomach how some people will sue for the most ridiculous reasons. oh my poor little child heard an f-word and his dignity can only be redeemed for $74,500. stupid jack-offs.

YEP!,

You know, walmart, the people and the record label are stupid!!
walmart for that stupid policy, the parent for beeing greedy fucks and the record label for not putting the parental advisory sticker!!

THERE!!!

Welcome to the USA...

I'm not saying I support the parents. I hate frivilous law suits. BUT, Wal-Mart created this environment by sanitizing the music and guaranteeing you pure music with no-swearing. Would this ever happen to Target? Hell no, they don't guarantee you pure clean, swear-free music.

Bottom line, is that Wal-Mart would NOT be in this position to be sued if they didn't do assinine things like this. Sure the parents are jack-offs, but I hardly feel sorry for Wal-Mart considering their idiocy. I say anything that may make them re-evaluate this policy is ulimately a good thing.

I find it funny that you had to edit that. :wink:

The family is perfectly right for suing Walmart here. By not putting the "Parental advisory" sticker on the CD, Walmart has implicitly advised the parents that there are no dirty words on the CD. Whether those parents deserve $75,000 (they don't) is irrelevant here; the court will award them some money, or they will settle with Walmart. In either case, it won't be as much as $75K.

Hey, come on over. At least you can buy any book you want here.