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CNN The Nineties June 4, 2024 04:13:00

>> walmart is refusing to sell nirvana's new release which includes a song called "rape me." the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers' moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title from "rape me" to "waif me." i don't think kurt was too happy about that. he always had that conflict between wanting to maintain that punk authenticity but also wanting to be popular. ♪ rape me ♪ >> the starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, that's because kurt's on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- it's been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. it's really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it

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