Cleaned-Up CDs Don’t Clean Up. Music manufacturers have been producing sanitized versions of recordings with “explicit content” (as it’s called in this post-Tipper-Gore cultural univese) for sale in the likes of Walmart and K-Mart, who said they wouldn’t put CDs with advisory labels on their shelves, mindful as they were of their Mom-‘n’-apple pie heartland image. But, thankfully, consumers don’t seem to be flocking to buy the cleaned-up models. Hey, Walmart, get the message: the fans are looking for the ones with the warning labels! LA Times