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UNFUCKING REAL! LAWSUIT HAPPY ASSHOLES!

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), which promotes itself as a seller of clean music, deceived customers by stocking compact discs by the rock group Evanescence that contain the f-word, a lawsuit claims.

The hit group's latest CD and DVD, "Anywhere But Home," don't carry parental advisory labels alerting potential buyers to the obscenity. If they did, Wal-Mart wouldn't carry them, according to the retailer's policy.

But the lawsuit claims Wal-Mart knew about the explicit lyrics in the song, "Thoughtless," because it censored the word in a free sample available on its Web site and in its stores.

The complaint, filed Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court, seeks an order requiring Wal-Mart to either censor or remove the music from its Maryland stores. It also seeks damages of up to $74,500 for each of the thousands of people who bought the music at Wal-Marts in Maryland.


"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," said plaintiff Trevin Skeens of Brownsville.

Skeens said he and his wife, Melanie, let their daughter buy the music for her 13th birthday and were shocked when they played it in their car while driving home.

Wal-Mart, of Bentonville, Ark., has no immediate plans to pull the CDs from its shelves, spokesman Guy Whitcomb told The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail. He said the company will investigate the allegations. No hearing dates have been set.

"While Wal-Mart sets high standards, it would not be possible to eliminate every image, word or topic that an individual might find objectionable," Whitcomb told the newspaper.

He told the Herald-Mail that the song sample online was censored by Walmart.com, a separate division of Wal-Mart.

Whitcomb didn't return telephone calls Friday from The Associated Press.

The lawsuit also names as defendants Wind-up Records LLC, the New York-based company that recorded the music and decided not to apply parental-advisory stickers; and distributor BMG Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, of New York.

Sony BMG declined to comment on the lawsuit. Wind-up didn't return calls from the AP.

The Skeens' lawyer, Jon D. Pels of Bethesda, said he aims to "take this case national, even if that means going state by state."

He dismissed Whitcomb's suggestion that Wal-Mart stores didn't know about the censored version of the song. "They are a multimillion-dollar corporation and they certainly can communicate among their various entities," he said.

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Sue the bastards :glugglug

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Isnt that how the all turn out.

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The lawyers in the US must be the luckiest bastards around - checking for one itsy-bitsy foul-up, make sure people they know are touched by it and then BAM - get a few friends, distant family and we got a class-action lawsuit.

Oh this is out of fucking control. I hope they force the lawyer to pay walmart's legal bills.

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My cousin was on holiday in US and the bus she sat in crashed with a car. Instead of helping out, people on the street runned into the bus, sat down and complained about hurting their neck and so on.....
Thats really fucked up :(

Wal-Mart gets sued about 5 or 10 times a day right? This is hardly news :1orglaugh

$74.5k to Wal-Mart is nothing. they will probably settle out of court just to shut the fucker up. and the lawyers who filed the suit know that.

$74,500 for EACH of the thousands of people who bought the music at Wal-Marts in Maryland. Key word being "EACH".

Oh man, I wish I had went to wal-mart and bought that CD.

But eh, they sued me three years ago and I'm not allowed in any of their stores. Prob wouldn't have worked out in the long run.

walmart should counter sue because their customer is a fucking moron.

Whatever happened to "THE LAND OF THE FREE" ????

What a fucking ridiculous mess. I'm not buddy-buddy with WalMart, but this is a crock of shit.

I can picture the guy freaking out and driving off the road as he fumbled to turn it off

per person that bought the CD

Still nothing. They are one of the largest companies in america.

if that family takes their kids to lunch at burger king and another diner says "the f word", do they sue him???

If they knew the guy had loads of money, they probably would.

stupid ass customer can go fuck himself

why

US = fucked legal system that panders to losers who want money for nothing

God Bless America....Land of the frivolous law suit:thumbsup

fuck that:1orglaugh

Obviously these people already had intimate knowledge concerning the word "fuck," otherwise they would not have recognized it when they heard it. So it sounds like to me they were already potty mouths, probably born again Christians with a history of IV drug use. Just another case of the kettle calling the pot black.

AND LATER ON THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT P2P AND SHIT ...

LAND OF THE FREE MY ASS.

The mentality of most Americans... sue sue sue.

Agree with you!!!

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I can see that happening :helpme

Pfff irrelevant of the outcome no one at WalMart is losing sleep about this. This is standard fair for a company of WalMarts size. At any time there is 500-1000 lawsuits pending against a company of this size. Some even more pathetic than this claim.

-Tony

...runned?

the kid was 13 years old, shit, when I was 13 I was listening to 2pac and NWA drinking, smoking weed and getting head at school. :1orglaugh

you are just jealous that you didnt think to sue first

amazing, suing and making a big deal over a $10 cd that sucks?

Ahh yes. One of the many reasons that things are so fucking expensive in the states.

Evan Essence was on the shelf with Past Benatar also.

Heart Breaker Lyrics

"Your love has set my soul on fire, burnin' out of control
You taught me the ways of desire, now its takin' its toll
You're the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner, and you know that you were born to be

You're a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don't you mess around with me!
You're a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don't you mess around - NO NO NO!

You're the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner, and you know that you were born to be"

Oh boy...

And EvanEssence said fuck?
WTF?

OMG@!