I will not buy anything that's been edited by an outside party. If the artist intended for the album to be filled with cursing, then that's what I want to hear.
And that's assuming that Wal-Mart will even sell the CD in the first place. There are a lot of albums that they simply won't carry for one reason or another. I remember back when they refused to carry one of Sheryl Crow's albums because she took a swipe at them in one of her songs for selling guns.
Movies, on the other hand, would be even worse. At least a song can just have the offending words beeped out or altered. In a movie, cutting out scenes can alter the pace and meaning of the film, and could leave an audience confused as to what the hell is going on.
And replacing the curse words with cleaner words often results in the film just being silly. Lethal Weapon is a movie which springs to mind. Seeing it on television was pretty funny. All these tough guys saying things like "We bury the funsters" (replacing "We bury the fuc*ers").
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