David Challenges Goliath - Texas Independent Record Label Threatens Wal-Mart With a 100 Million Dollar Lawsuit
(PRWEB) March 6, 2005 March 4, 2005, In a statement released today Kirk Phillips, chief executive of Houston based record label GoreallaEntertainment.com, is publicly putting Wal-Mart on notice: ?Carry our product, in the original unedited format or face serious legal action.?
Wal-Mart, the world?s largest retailer and record store have a standing policy since 1996 of not stocking CDs, which carry parental advisory labels. Phillips cries foul whenever the policy is mentioned.
?It is time to level the playing field,? says Phillips ?Wal-Mart has been making money ?Just below the public consciousness? off the sale of risqué, salacious, or otherwise objectionable entertainment items for years.? ?While at the same, Wal-Mart?s ridiculously unfair policy aimed at keeping so-called indecent products of the shelves has been in effect and that very policy is financially oppressing independent record labels,? asserts Phillips.
Wal-Mart is accused of trying to keep the independent record