Green day a popular American boy band is infuriated with the fact that their new album "21st Century Breakdown,"
will not be released at Wal-Mart. The Band claims that the giant chain refuses to stock there CD, Reasons for this is that Wal-Mart wanted them to edit the album for language and content but green day rejected. "Wal-Mart's become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won't carry our record because they wanted us to censor it," claims one of the band member Billy Joe Armstrong. A Wal-Mart representative from Canada says that the albums will be sold in this country. Wal-Mart does have a policy that they will sell explicit albums there is a offer to the customers for the “clean” version but what Armstrong says is that "There's nothing dirty about our record." Simply the band says no they wont have there album censored I would feel like I’m in “1953 or something." States Armstrong. Wal-Mart is standing strong against its policy the fact to always have a parental advisory sticker on a more explicit album. The fact that the band didn’t get there album sold at the number one record store in America didn’t stop them, They start there summer tour on July 3rd in Seattle. With the added 215,000 copies sold from their new album 21st century breakdown. Although the band is still the top seller in America at this present time there are still losing a large percentage of record sales, since Wal-Mart is dominate of smaller record companies.
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