Have you ever bought an album with the parental advisory label?

[Mario60866iPod13]

I've got a fun topic tonight. Parental music censorship. Some parents are as strict as hell about not letting their kids buy albums with parental advisory labels because of that one Wobbuffet named Tipper Gore who started the PMRC which labeled good songs like "Trashed" by Black Sabbath as if they were devil music. Then parents became super strict on everything their kids listen to just like that. My parents didn't let up even slightly about it until I turned sixteen. And by today, they even admitted to me they wanted to shelter me away from the very same metal music I love, when I was a kid.

And yes, for the record I have bought an album with the parental advisory label against my parents' will. It is Reign in Blood by Slayer. I purchased it with the help of a friend and sneaked it into my iTunes library in the middle of the night. They still wouldn't let me buy Black Sabbath let alone Slayer when I purchased a bunch of forbidden CDs I wanted recently.

Back when I was eight years old, my dad took away my good old blue iPod like the one in the picture below and when he returned it, 78 of the 81 songs were missing from it. He claimed it was all inappropriate for one reason or another when most of it was actually fairly innocent with a few PG-13 outliers.

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List of 81 Songs From Blue iPod by Removal Status

Sorted by Artist and Title


Not Removed:

• They Might Be Giants
  • Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• Weezer
  • Island in the Sun
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • Walls (No. 3)

Removed:

• Alice in Chains
  • God Smack
• The Allman Brothers Band
  • No One Left to Run With
• Audioslave
  • No Remind/Doesn’t Remind Me
• B.B. King
  • Good Man Gone Bad
  • If That Ain’t It I Quit
  • Night Life
• Beck
  • Beercan
  • Think I’m in Love
  • Strange Apparition
  • No Complaints
• The Black Crowes
  • Gone
  • High Head Blues
  • Wiser Time
• Blues Traveler
  • Regarding Steven
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
  • Wade In The Water
• Collective Soul
  • Untitled
  • Gel
• The Doors
  • People Are Strange
• David Lindley
  • Mercury Blues
• Dave Matthews Band
  • Crash Into Me
  • Recently
  • All Along the Watchtower
• Damien Rice
  • Volcano
• Delbert McClinton
  • Leap of Faith
• Elvis Presley
  • Heartbreak Hotel
  • Don’t Be Cruel
  • All Shook Up
  • Hard Headed Woman
  • A Little Less Conversation
• Eric Clapton
  • Driftin’ Blues
• G. Love & Special Sauce
  • Cold Beverage
• Howlin’ Wolf
  • Shake it for Me
• Johnny Cash
  • Further on Up the Road
• The Jesus Lizard
  • Panic in Cicero
• Joe Walsh
  • Rocky Mountain Way
• Johnny Lang
  • Second Guessing
• John Lee Hooker
  • Whiskey and Wimmen
• Jimmy Rogers
• Rock this House
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd
  • Shame, Shame, Shame
• Keb Mo’
  • Tell Everybody I Know
  • God Trying To Get Your Attention
• Led Zeppelin
  • The Crunge
• Los Lonely Boys
  • Heaven
• Love Among Freaks
  • Clerks
• Lyle Lovett
  • Cryin’ Shame
• Niel Young
  • The Needle and the Damage
• Nirvana
  • Lake of Fire
• The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • One More Headache
• Pearl Jam
  • Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
• The Posies
  • I Guess You’re Right
  • Love Comes
• The Pretenders
  • Back on the Chain Gang
• Rage Against the Machine
  • Bulls on Parade
• The Rolling Stones
  • Paint it Black
• Simon & Garfunkel
  • Mrs. Robinson
• The Soggy Bottom Boys
  • I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
• Son Volt
  • Tear Stained Eye
• Soundgarden
  • The Day I Tried To Live
• Stealer’s Wheel
  • Stuck in the Middle With You
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Love Struck Baby
  • Crossfire
• Supernova
  • Chewbacca
• Talking Heads
  • Sugar On MyTounge
• The Thorns
  • I Can’t Remember
• The Traveling Wilburys
  • Handle With Care
• The Wallflowers
  • I’m Looking Through You
• Weezer
  • Hash Pipe

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

not to make anyone feel old or anything but i have never bought a physical album #zoomersriseup

 

[Chadlad50]

I've never bought a physical nor digital album

I just listen to stuff on Youtube most of the time

 

[Heavyweapons Mann]

Who actually buys physical albums anymore (or digital for that matter?) Most people listen to albums/songs on Spotify or something similar.

 

[TheValkyries]

wait do digital outlets not have to do the parental advisory thing like... at all? I've never thought about that before... I know a lot of songs have to like put an (Explicit) tag on them. is that even the same thing?

 

[aVocado]

wait do digital outlets not have to do the parental advisory thing like... at all? I've never thought about that before... I know a lot of songs have to like put an (Explicit) tag on them. is that even the same thing?

I always thought it's the same thing. Spotify and apple music have an option to censor songs too, and sometimes there'd be two versions of the same song, one censored and one uncensored. it's stupid

As for me i also never bought any albums. used to pirate all my music until i subscribed to spotify years ago, and never looked back

 

[Martin]

You lot are missing out on vinyl

 

[Astra]

You lot are missing out on vinyl

nah i'm just broke