As I was walking through my "friendly neighborhood" Wal-Mart the other day, I was shocked at what I saw. $5 budget "greatest hits" CDs by bands like The Ramones and The Clash. Joe Strummer and Joey, Dee Dee, and Johnny are rolling over in their graves. These bands were PUNK. Punk goes against everything Wal-Mart stands for. It would be like Victoria's Secret selling men's outerwear. It never ceases to amaze me that Wal-Mart is our nation's largest distributor of music. It's to the point that they've killed off so many record stores that it isn't funny.
Next up, what goes on their shelves is ridiculous. If you want something that isn't Top 40 garbage, you better go somewhere besides Wal-Mart. It's all Top 40 and Country. They have about 10 rows devoted to Lady GaGa, but not even one full row of the Paul McCartney reissues that came out this past week. Now, it just means that they are following whatever's hot, right? Wrong. Adele's "21" album has been on the top of the billboard charts for many weeks this year, but I had to dig through tons of albums to just find one copy of it.
Third, Wal-Mart refuses to sell any albums with the Tipper Sticker on them. Okay, they're just trying to keep their family-friendly image, right? Wrong. They have no issue with selling R rated movies. Which is going to be more harmful to small children, hearing Billie Joe Armstrong say "Fuck America" with good reason and background or watching Jigsaw hack random people mindlessly till their bodies are a bloody pile of bones?
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