You can still get the uncensored one though. When I lived in Dallas about five years ago, my local music store released a version of HIStory that had Spanish text on the discs, but the music itself and the whole booklet were in English. When I heard those tracks, I was surprised no censoring existed on them. I'm thinking it must have been some kind of import version, because the discs have Spanish text around the edges and something about "Sony Music Argentina".
Actually, there were stickers before the 1980s, but they didn't say "Parental Advisory". The sticker was voluntary and was mostly used on comedy albums (like Richard Pryor or Rudy Ray Moore) which had a lot of profanity on them. The stickers usually had something like "strong language, not for all audiences".
That backfired on them because the stickers helped to drive sales (like 2 Live Crew records), at least in the beginning. Like many teens are going to get it because they're not supposed to have it or told not to listen to it. Now the stickers don't really mean anything since you can see or hear anything on the internet or on video games like GTA. Wal Mart doen't sell stickered albums though and only sell the clean versions but they sell R rated movies.
.Mikky Dee;4230619 said:
How many kids/teens buy club remix singles though?mj_frenzy;4230543 said:
Where I'm from, I heard a lot of profanity being spoken at school, in the neighborhood, and from relatives than whatever was on a record. So a sticker wouldn't have made any difference. A kid could have bought a street tape on the corner. A street tape was a bootleg cassette or 8-track that people would sell in store parking lots or flea markets. Since the tapes were illegal anyway, the people selling them would sell them to whoever would buy them, it's not like buying in a store. Those record clubs that used to have ads for "12 albums for a penny!" didn't ask the age of the people ordering either. There's also some parents not caring about things like that and don't censor what their kids listen to or watch. Many parents take their kids to R rated movies.
DuranDuran;4253595 said:
There were some teenage rap groups in the 1990s. One was called 5th Ward Juvenilez, another was Illegal. Both groups used profanity on their songs. Even Kris Kross used the n-word on a few songs. I guess acts like these were primarily marketed to teens, not adults. So wouldn't a sticker cancel out their main audience? Also what about the parents who don't care about the stickers and buy the music for their kids anyway? Or at least play the music with kids around.mj_frenzy;4253637 said:
