What effect, if any, have big box stores like Wal-Mart have had on country music?
HWIII: I guess just givin’ people that live way out in the sticks the option to buy something that’s clean and pretty and plastic and fake and supposedly “American.” I always say whoever has to buy music at Wal-Mart I feel sorry for. I’ve never seen Wal-Mart as a music distributor. All it’s done for country music is make it more fake than it already is…you can step over five feet and buy something that says “fuck,” “shit,” “goddamn,” and fucks with racism, homosexuality, politics, and religion and all this other shit in the Hollywood section. Music and DVDs, it’s a fine line, and goddammit, at least somebody’s gettin’ away with it. Much respect to Trey Parker and Matt Stone for fucking Wal-Mart in the ass. RM: I didn’t see the point in them taking that “Dick in Dixie” song off your new CD. Are people not going to hear it and have their souls saved as a result? It’s just a fuckin’ song. HWIII: It’s only words, and they took off an already edited version. And like I said, they sell South
