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Jello Biafra and Tipper Gore on Oprah

Hold on to your Tipper Stickers:

On the 2001 Dead Kennedys’ live album Mutiny on the Bay, during their song “M.T.V. - Get off the Air”, lead singer Jello Biafra tells the audience to “buy a homemade [record] instead, before the PMRC closes the stores down that sell ‘em”. Biafra had earlier been brought to trial on charges of “distributing harmful matter to minors” in an incident involving the 1985 Dead Kennedys’ album Frankenchrist, which featured an insert of H R Giger’s Penis Landscape and a parody sticker on the front cover reading:

“WARNING: The inside fold out to this record cover is a work of art by H.R. Giger that some people may find shocking, repulsive or offensive. Life can sometimes be that way.”