The Manics Censored By ASDA

[Zoidburg]

Well the album cover was anyway

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Supermarkets cover up Manics CD

Serious question - just who is the person who makes this kind of decision for supermarkets?

I really find it hard to understand that someone with that level of clout completely lacks any understanding of modern culture out side of what you see on the cover of the Sun or The Daily Star.

[border-rider]

Serious question - just who is the person who makes this kind of decision for supermarkets?

The person who knows full well that if they don't, they'll have the massed ranks of sanctimonious morally-superior fuckwittery beating a path to the Mail, and thence to the Board of their employer. 

Yes they could do the right thing, but in the end they'd surely have to back down  anyway - so a quick cost/benefit indicates to them that on this occasion it's better to hide your balls than have them removed in public with a blunt spoon.

It's a fair cop, gov, but society really is to blame this time.

edit: in fact doing it this way might generate sufficient backlash that the decision gets reversed...

[GruB]

Serious question - just who is the person who makes this kind of decision for supermarkets?

 sanctimonious morally-superior fuckwittery

What a stupendous phrase.  I must get that into a sentence for real. 

[should be cycling]

"Concerns have been raised that the cover for Journal For Plague Lovers, a portrait by artist Jenny Saville, looks like it is splattered with blood."

The cover up was silly.  But you have to admit, the face does look like it is splattered with blood.

[Zoidburg]

Serious question - just who is the person who makes this kind of decision for supermarkets?

 sanctimonious morally-superior fuckwittery

What a stupendous phrase.  I must get that into a sentence for real. 

I am sure it will sound good in court and please the Judge no end.

[clarion]

So long as the Manics get more sales from the publicity, I'm happy...

[Spinners]

get more sales from the publicity...

Mission accomplished!

[Julian]

"Concerns have been raised that the cover for Journal For Plague Lovers, a portrait by artist Jenny Saville, looks like it is splattered with blood."

The cover up was silly.  But you have to admit, the face does look like it is splattered with blood.

Do you think so?  I didn't see that at all until I read that it did, and even then I'm not sure.

[rogerzilla]

I don't see how it could be offensive at all.  Maybe all this talk of Pig Pox is making the supermarkets nervous of the word "plague"?

[Adrian]

So long as the Manics get more sales from the publicity, I'm happy...

Quite. That is the sort of free publicity usually only afforded to Ryanair

[Bluebottle]

I can only assume that there is more offense to the sensibilities caused by the criminal use of the pseudo-cyrillic R's.  The persistent use of "edgy" type-face is nothing more than half-arsed Simple Minds.

"Do you remember the 1980's?  I was there too."

[Mrs Pingu]

I thought the image looked a bit bloodied, but it's art innit? Even if it was actually supposed to be depicting a bloodied boy, who's to say he's not just fallen off his bike/down a flight of stairs/had fisticuffs with his siblings?

[border-rider]

I thought "birthmark"

[Julian]

I thought "inner turmoil." 

But that's probably the wanky arts student in me surfacing. 

[border-rider]

I've just seen the same pic in the Gruaniad, and the colours there are less vivid. 

[Gandalf]

<rather thick WVM sticks head above parapet> 

To me it just looks like either a crap painting or one I'm too uneducated to understand/ Emperor new clothes job.

In no way does it make me think of blood letting.