In an awesome stand of artistic integrity and musical freedom, Green Day has given the proverbial finger to Wal-Mart in defense of their music. The massive retailer has a long standing policy of only carrying records with so-called "clean content", meaning no obscene words or objectionable content. When faced with the choice of changing their music and selling more records or leaving it and possibly not selling as many records, they chose to keep their album as is.
"They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there," lead singer Billy Joe Armstrong said. "We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something."
And, despite being released on Friday instead of Tuesday like most records are, and not being carried at the biggest CD retailer, "21st Century Breakdown" sold 215,000 copies over the weekend. Take that ready-made, cookie-cutter, watch-for-falling-prices America!!!
* pulled some info from yahoo news and billboard.com*
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