CD Trashing. It's The New Book Burning

Via Music Filter comes a story about an American church destroying "mountains of rap CDs, DVDs and other paraphernalia affiliated with the hip-hop culture, claiming it is a bad influence on their children."

A church member, Steve Kelly, said:

"It's a culture of hypnosis, brainwashing kids into mimicking degrading values"

And I agreed with him until I realised he was talking about hip-hop:

" It's all about, you know, selling drugs, getting money, cheating on your girl."

Topics that wholesome groups like The Beatles, say, or The Eagles would never address, of course.