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Wal-Mart Music Download Service Launches
nns6561 writes "Wal-Mart launched their music download service today. They are providing wma files for 88 cents. I was able to download and play the test file with MPlayer and Linux. Finally, a music service for us geeks." While it may be only another online music seller, I'd hazard a guess that Wal-Mart has the name recognition to be the most prevalent music download service, especially among the tech-unsavvy.
I'm canadian and have nothing against mullets. It just sounded cool as a generic name.
It's racist. It shows your true colors.
If you don't want your kids to be badly influenced by something, be a parent and tell them about it, dammit. It's not by shielding them from reality that you'll achieve anything. Next you'll be in favor of burning "dangerous" books and putting people in jail for thought crimes. I am not in favor of GOVERNMENT burning anything. Reality is not a person telling you to beat up women, rape them, kill them, burn their bodies, and sell them into prostitution. Reality is not extolling the virtues of killing cops. Reality is NOT what is being sold often. You can tell your children about all the bad things AND still enforce a policy of them not induldging in massively damaging messages of violence, rap, obscenity, sex, and immorality. Telling a child one thing - no matter how often - and then throwing them to the pop culture wolves - is a stupid, mis-guided, and ultimately failure-bound policy.
putting people in jail for thought crimes.
No, that's the GOVERNMENT again. I am however, supportive of my right to purchase media that conforms to my own political, moral, and social views.
I just hope you are not the kind of person who is offended by sex on the TV and finds it okay for his kids to watch terminator.
I think simulated violence is a *much* bigger problem than sexual content.
But I do have something against censorship and the "I know better than you what you need" folks like you who accept it as something normal and good.
Well you haven't said what in a way that makes sense. If I want my children to have unfiltered access to popular culture, that's fine, I know how to provide that. Wal-Mart fills a role that real actual people want, and find valuable. An organization able to filter that *massive* amount of pop-culture that is advertised to the masses.
Nice troll.
In any case, you are the troll. You've exposed yourself as a racist, and a person who builds up strawmen by implying that support of Wal-Mart censorsing indicates a support for "book burning" and "jailing people for thought crimes".
PS - Walmart is setting up stores in China and kicking the shit out of the Chinese stores.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I live within 10 minutes of 4 stores that sell nothing but CDs/DVDs. Plus a Borders', Barnes + Noble, Circuit City, KMart, and Best Buy. I've never bought a CD at walmart. Far too many mouth-breathing missing-links, not to mention kids crying and fat dopey welfare housewives/baby factories.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.