[WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

[Durova]

It could be interesting if Wikimedians around the planet uploaded pictures
of themselves holding the cover. :)

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:31 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's now mainstream. IWF representative to be present. I look forward
> > to dropping in the line "Wikipedia smells of hammers." ([[Brass Eye]])
>
> Apparently the image is on the the deluxe boxed set sold everywhere,
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trance-Virgin-Killer-Deluxe-Collectors/dp/B000N3AWGQ
>  (It's on the back side, click the second image)
>
> It would be super-fantastic if someone could confirm that you can just
> walk into a record store in the UK and buy it. There are stores here
> that have it, I'm tempted to go get a picture of myself holding... and
> start a campaign of other folks doing that.
>
> One fact that some of the media is getting wrong is the claim that the
> cover is banned in 'some' places. I can't find any evidence of this.
> Record dealers often call any cover which is changed or pulled
> 'banned', since it makes the records sound more valuable. The cover
> was most certainly not banned in the US, although the label pulled it
> amid controversy about the image.
>
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