Because I’m not quite brave enough to use “Bullshit, Fuck, Joint” as a title.
Anyway, as I was driving home from work this evening, I found myself yelling “bullshit! Bullshit!” at the radio. Not because I disagreed with anything that was being said, but because the radio station I was listening to took it upon themselves to blank the word “bullshit” out of the Pink Floyd song Money. I hate it when they do that. They used to leave it in, but now they take it out, along with a “fuck” from The Who’s Who Are You and the word joint from that Tom Petty song that has the line “let’s roll another joint.” Joint isn’t even a swear word for fuck’s sake. Like we’re supposed to care if a musician smokes pot. As John said about the guy who recently searched Willie Nelson’s bus and found pot and shrooms – “You figured out that Willie Nelson was likely to have pot on his tour bus? Way to go Sherlock.”
As far as I’m concerned, this bleeping out of lyrics that used to get played is just one more symptom of all that is wrong with this country.
The FCC sucks. It's that simple.
I do the same thing. I hate it when they bleep out words like joint, or the name of a gun. It's like they think that by bleeping out joint they're part of the war on drugs and it's a pivotal step to their success. Morons.