Willie Nelson's new CD comes out today, a reggae-influenced album with cover art featuring Jamaican motifs, including a marijuana leaf. If you buy the disc at Wal-Mart, however, you get a guaranteed wholesome, non-mind-expanding version, with the ganja leaf replaced by a palm tree. Kudos to the mega-retailer. With visionary measures like these, surely many Wal-Mart-shopping Willie fans will be heroically saved from a life of drug-induced squalor. (hat tip: Boing Boing)
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What's so great to me is just how happy these artists are to let wal-mart fuck with their albums and cover art.
"Why offend with style or substance when you can make more money?"
Posted by: Phil | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 03:26 PM
The "artists" don't really have a choice, especially someone like Willie Nelson (who really only works these days to pay off a massive IRS debt). With most contracts, the musician doesn't have that much influence when it comes to album art. If your label decides to change the pot leaf to a palm tree, you're lucky if you even get a memo.
Posted by: William | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 06:31 PM