Go ahead, sign up. You can get up to $74,500 if you bought the new Evanescence CD at a Wal-Mart in Maryland. Come on fellow Dopers. Stick it to tha Man! Hell, I might race down there tomorrow just to cash in! The hatred of Wally World may finally pay off. People are finally standing up and saying, “We’re tired of complaining about how the workers are screwed! We’re going for $74,500 cuz little Suzie heard ‘Fuck’ in a song!”
Oh, I expect everyone defending the Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” fines to come and defend Wal-Mart over this slight faux-pas.
That money is extortion by parents and fundies who expect – nay, demand – that Wal-Mart allow them to live in a sheltered little world without F-Words. If you take a penny of that cash, you’re supporting their Ashcroftian business model: nary a stray nipple uncovered; nary a blue word un-bleeped. If you honestly think that $75,000 is going to hurt Wal*Mart, then good for you, you morally upright son of a right-thinking family.
Coming soon, the television saga you’ve been waiting for:
duffer: The heroic story of one man’s struggle to defend a helpless megacorporation.
They told him it couldn’t be done. They said he was crazy. But duffer’s sense of justice was greater than, well, any other sense he had. He refused to stand quietly while the innocent were mercilessly attacked. He fought for a vision, for a smiley faced price chopper, and for the love of one woman’s favorite place for bargains.
I dunno, watching a mega-greedy corporation that destroys small town businesses and exploits its employees fighting tight-assed, Bible-humping control freaks who want to turn America into Jesusland can be entertaining in its own way.
Evanescence’s album “Fallen” contains no vulgarity. It’s possible that Wal-Mart (or Evanescence’s marketers) overlooked the content of the new album, based on precedent.
I agree that there’s some entertainment in watching Wal*Mart, the monolithic hallmark of fundamentalist Christian values, being sued for not quite carrying the cross high enough. Bite the hand that feeds you, anyone?
The proper recourse would be for Wal*Mart to apologize, refund the money for the CDs, and for the church to forgive them for this mistake. But good thing the right wing didn’t get it’s frivilous lawsuit awards cap passed before they had the opportunity to take advantage of it. I’m glad they’re learning from their good friend Tipper Gore.
I hate getting such enjoyment out of a bad faith posting by duffer, but there you have it. The implosion has begun.
Thank god someone is finally thinking of the children.
Obviosusly the lawyer is from some two-bit location and has never worked in a company of more than 10 people. I’ve seen companies from small shops to major multi-nationals not exchange enough information to realize that two groups or divisions were working on the same project (or finding one working to build a process another was trying to destroy) without realizing it, and he thinks the technician in the web division is going to communicate “bad” lyrics to the purchasing division of a whole separate company?
“Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 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.”
Does anyone else find this type of reporting annoying? The talking heads on the news do this all the time. Come out and make some statement against a person or thing, then throw a bit on the end saying so and so said it. Compare to:
“A recently filed lawsuit claims Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 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.”
Well, let’s be honest with ourselves. The lawyer is going to present things in a light best for his client. The plaintiff’s attorney may well know that large organizations frequently communicate poorly but he’s SURE not going to highlight that.
Instead he’s going to paint Wal-Mart as the paragon of perfection, communications-wise, and try to hang them for selling this CD.
Have to agree with Johnathan Chance on that one. Whether the lawyer realizes the truth himself or not, many people tend to think of corporations (or governments, or whatever large organization you’d imagine) as Big Giant Heads where all parts know what all the other parts are doing, or are supposed to. This is even true of many people who themselves work for large organizations and ought to know better. And Wal*Mart doesn’t help the perception with their ‘we have more terabits of data about our customer than the whole internet’ and ‘we’re dialed into our suppliers so they know everytime someone buys a garden hose they have to ship a new one’ and whatnot. Playing into that is smart lawyering.
The 24 Season Three DVD features an original made-for-DVD short that sets the stage for Season Four which features a scene in which the character of Jack Bauer says “I can find my own fucking job.”
Pfft. I’m surprised none of you see what this is really about.
Wal-Mart, for years, has made a big deal out of selling “clean” music, to the point of making bands “fix” their songs before agreeing to sell their CDs.
They finally screwed up, and now a CD with a bad word has slipped through the cracks.
Think those families care about one little word? Puhleze.
Wal-Mart violated their own policy, albeit accidentally, and it’s time to CASH IN.
If they had simply sold music as is from day one, this wouldn’t be happening today.
