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Kansas AG Rejects Settlement Discs
RWarrior(fobw) writes "Kansas's Attorney General has rejected 1600 CDs by 25 different artist as part of the music industry's anti-trust settlement. Is this a community values issue, a censorship issue, or just crap music being foisted off onto the public as part of a meaningless settlement?"
Rejected CDs
rejected for Kansas public libraries by Attorney General Phill Kline's office:
* Alice In Chains, "Greatest Hits," "Live"
* Big Punisher, "Yeeeah Baby"
* Blink 182, "Cheshire Cat"
* Foxy Brown, "China Doll"
* Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting," "Classic Masters"
* Cypress Hill, "III," "Live at the Fillmore"
* Da Brat, "Unrestricted"
* Devo, "Pioneers Who Got Scalped"
* Heavy D, "Heavy"
* Jagged Edge, "JE Heartbreak"
* Live, "The Distance to Here"
* Mase, "Harlem World"
* NAS, "It Was Written," "Nastradamas"
* Notorious B.I.G., "Born Again"
* OutKast, "Aquemini," "Stankonia"
* Rage Against the Machine, "Renegades"
* Lou Reed, "Growing Up in Public," "Rock and Roll Heart," "Sally Can't Dance," "Walk on the Wild Side"
* Silver Chair, "Freak Show"
* Soul Asylum, "Candy From a Stranger," "Let Your Dim Light Shine"
* Stone Temple Pilots, "Tiny Lights: Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop"
* Toadies, "Hell Below"
* "Bad Boy Records Greatest Hits"
* The Wu-Tang Clan, "The W"
* Wyclef Jean, "The Carnival"
Spoken like a true censor!
Hardly. I could care less what you listen to or read. If my local library carries copies of "Nazism For Dummies", then good for them. If they want to carry Eminem, good for them.
I think all material belongs in a library.
Have you ever donated materials to your library? I have donated a hundred or so books to my local library. Not all the books I give them end up on the shelves. They pick and choose. Why? Because they have only so much room on the shelves. They have to be selective.
Oh, so if the people running the libraries are just as ass-backwards as the AG, this makes censorship OK?
What's so hard about this? He was being selective about the materials that were being supplied to the libraries via the state government. That's it. He wasn't telling them they couldn't carry Outkast. He was simply saying that the state wasn't going to provide it to them. It's not censorship! The libraries can carry Outkast if they want to. No one is being access to the music. Nothing is being burned.
Dumb part of this is while Kline is trying to censor what come into the libraries, he hasn't been looking at what's already there.
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I live in Kansas and our library's collection of audio CD's is mostly stuff nobody under 30 would be interested in. Lots of broadway musical scores, classical records that can be bought for $3-$8 in Wal-Mart because they are in Public Domain, ect.
Anyway, there's a small collection of "Pop" music, and I know there's a copy of Slipknot's Iowa in there, and there's some RATM, too. So it's already in circulation in Kansas.
Maybe the collection of discs is mostly unsellable stuff. But the lists of artists being blocked right now sounds a lot more interesting than reports of several thousand CDs of Whitney Housten singing the Star Spangled banner like other states are getting.
It's not the artists' best works, but it sounds like we got some of the better giveaways. I say let them in since we're not getting any choices.
When I first saw the headline about the discs getting rejected, I thought Kline was rejecting the settlement discs because they were tons of crap like the other states had been getting. What a letdown when I read the story.
You're right, Liquid. People seem to confuse Freedom of Speech with the Freedom to be heard, or the freedom to access anything they want (copyrights are against the first amendment?). I don't think there's ever been something in the U.S. Constitution that been fallaciously interpreted in more stupid ways by ignorant people than the First Amendment.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya
Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya
They say jump and ya say how high
Ya brain-dead
Ya gotta fuckin' bullet in ya head
Yes, bullet in the head, it isn't saying go and shoot somebody, its called symbolism... IE, if your a prisoner to the system you might as well have a bullet in your head.
Same with killing in the name, read the whole song, then comment about it!