[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays before record label censorship was imposed.]
There were bills (in the early '90s) in at least seven states to require warning labels on records which were deemed offensive or inappropriate for children. Alabama, for instance, already had laws promoting censorship of music, in which record store owners or employees could actually be arrested for selling records (usually to minors) deemed morally offensive by local authorities. Florida likewise had a nearly identical bill. Many of these bills advocating the enforcement of record labelling went into law nationwide. (to be cont'd)
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