Censorship; the PMRC

[VinceZeb]

Blanco, the PMRC/artists hearings in the 80s are worth your time reading. I believe the artists were doomed from the get-go because they went after the advisory stickers as censorship, when in fact the labels were just to indicate that there are racy/questionable lyrics on this album. The artists forgot the first rule of art which is that contraversey sells.

Dee Snider came off as truthful and intelligent, which I believe really amazed/pissed off the PRMC, Frank Zappa couldn't get past his anti-religious/anti-christian bigotry high horse to make an argument with substance (I am so glad that guy is burning in Hell), and John Denver gave a suprising argument considering the source. I just think its a bit funny that the people that chose to defend the sides of the artists were people that don't have to worry about their albums not being in stores (Twisted Sister was on the decline, Zappa should have worried about his albums actually SELLING before worrying about if they were going to be carried and I don't even think that Denver was going to cover "Cop Killer").