Re: [microsound] [OT] FCC Insanity

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Last Point:
> > Walk into any experimental/techno record shop and tell me how > much
censorship you see there.
>
> There is an album that I have that I purchased at a record store I
> worked at.  I can't remember the name of it, but it was released on
> rrr records and deals with the Holocaust.  It states right on it that
> it is in remembrance of the victims etc.  A lot of people saw German
> writing and a war helmet on the front that wanted us to remove it from
> the store assuming that it was raciest and needed to be censored.
> Just an example of censorship hapening in an Experimental record shop.

I think the original sleeve of Alec Empire´s "generation starwars" album
featured swasticas on stormtrooper hemets. I seem to remember it was
censored soon after.

It happens but admittedly it´s extremely rare.

Kas.



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