Rage Against The Machine Spark Outrage At Asda Supermarket

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by Jason Gregory
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Rage Against The Machine Spark Outrage At Asda Supermarket

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A supermarket in Lancashire has apologised after it played an offensive song by Rage Against The Machine near a children's section.

Shoppers complained after an employee in the store's entertainment section played 'Killing In The Name' over the PA system.

The track features the line “Fuck you I won't do what you tell me” - which is repeated sixteen times.

Nicola Gahagan, 27, who was doing her weekly shop at the Asda supermarket in Fulwood, described the experience as “awful”.

She told the Lancashire Evening Post: "A member of staff must have put the song on himself in the entertainment section – he was nodding his head. It repeats 16 times.

"All they needed to do was switch the stop button. I spoke to another woman who had a child – I would be surprised if other people have not complained.

"If I was watching television I would not have to put up with that.”

In a statement, Asda said they were “very sorry” and admitted that the song shouldn't have been played in the store.

“We're taking this very seriously and doing everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen again,” they added.

A local councillor also expressed her disappointment over the broadcast and compared it to the recent radio scandal involving Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross.

Rage Against the Machine have not commented on the matter.

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Fantastic. I want to shake that spotty teenagers hand.
~ by only18 11/19/2008
that's nothing. i had to listen to some fucking sub-scooter donk shit in zavvi the other day cos the meffy security wonk had put it on
~ by chockablock 11/19/2008
Why the fuck should Rage Against The Machine make a comment. Im sure an Asda in Lancashire is the last thing they would give a shit about...
~ by Grant 11/20/2008
Hey, hey, hey...they don't have any pictures of Brad :[
~ by ArcadianWarrior 11/20/2008
ROFL! "She told the Lancashire Evening Post: "A member of staff must have put the song on himself in the entertainment section
~ by Chris 11/21/2008
no-one gives a fuck when images of dead children are shown on the news at dinner time? whats the problem with WORDS (and thats all they are, fucking words, stupid bint lol)
~ by Bob 1/19/2009
that reminds me of when it was played on radio ones chart show when it was in the top 40, bruno brooks couldn't remove the needle quick enough, how we laughed!!!
~ by mononoke 3/25/2009
Yeah Rage against the machine are too good for the boring mindless drones that go to the supermarket they should stick to playing Bland insipid Cack like Simply Red
~ by Heavy Metal Steve 4/12/2009

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