Some years ago Wal-Mart, in all their glory, decided that they would not sell any music CDs with Parental Advisory warnings on them.
Okay at first I could accept that because they're a southern store with conservitive customers and they want their stores to mirror their customers wants and desires like any good store should.
It makes sense that a parent would want to know the rating on the music their kids are listening to. We've had moive ratings for years . Parents like to know what their kids are geting into. So if kids say they are going to Wally World to pick up a new CD the parents could trust their kids to buy something... decent. (If anyone uses that word to mean proper anymore.)
It's a marketing ploy "come to us to buy your music and your kids will buy safe things."
BUT I've noticed over the last few months that apparently this "G" rating doesn't follow into movies. In fact not only are their R rated films there but I have seen UNRATED with not only horrible language but gratuitous nudity. (I'm always up for gratuitous nudity but we're not trying to protect me) The UNRATED version of Harold and Kumar got to White Castle is a perfect example. Crazy language. A scene with "battleshits" and at least three (very nice) bits of nudity.
The key is that for R or UNRATED movies you're carded at the register. But then why not do that with pratental advisory cds. Why choose one over the other. Why sell 9 1/2 Weeks and not Eminems new cd.
My brother said it last month we've become a visual society. We are more impacted by what we see that any thing else. And seeing Neil Patrick Harris snort coke of a strippers ass is same thing as hearing Snoop talking about gin and juice.
Course that's just my opinion...
*Puts down the soap box*
Two days off in a row. I may go stir crazy. And I work three doubles. I love my life.
And now, the stupidest purchase of the week. (I can't help myself sometimes.)
Matt
Posted by matty at February 23, 2005 02:18 PMDude.... sometimes I wonder why your my best friend? And times like this when you buy The Greatest American Hero DVD I just have to shake my head and say, "That is frickin' awesome!!! I want to buy that!" Seriously I loved that show. A super hero that loses the instructions to his super hero suit? That's entertainment!!!
Posted by: A.J. at February 24, 2005 03:24 PMYou guys are too funny.
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