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Choices have been made by persons other than Anti-Flag and Fat Wreck Chords regarding the artwork of this release, reads the blacked out censored version of The Terror State.

There is some confusion about the censorship of the artwork on our new CD, "The Terror State". We want to clear up the confusion. Most stores that care about artistic freedom will be carrying the original artwork (the girl on the cover). However, there are some larger chain stores that simply do not like the original cover and who do not care about artistic freedom. They censored our artwork and as a result will be carrying a censored version of the CD. If you can't find any stores in your area carrying the original artwork, you can print it out here. We strongly urge you to buy the record from your local indie record stores or directly from Fat Wreck Chords, who both support artistic freedom and freedom of speech.

Exceptionally late in the production process of THE TERROR STATE, some of the biggest national music stores in the US informed Fat Wreck Chords that they would not carry our CD because of its artwork. We find this frustrating in that the image of the little girl whose childhood falls casualty to the current state of militarism in the US and much of the world, isn’t any more violent or disturbing than the world-wide epidemic of militarism which kills and oppresses countless human beings everyday – and yet we do not see these chains censoring media that promote militaristic ideas. That said, we made a calculated decision to forgo the artwork to get the more important, subversive message in our music to the ears of people who have not yet discovered that there is an alternative to purchasing music in a chain store, or do not have access to an indie store in their area.

The radical transformation of our artwork was made to draw attention to the fact that SOME huge chains use their massive distribution power to intimidate artists into “dumbing down” their content. If you don’t like a group of corporate store executives deciding what you should or should not see go to: Underground Action Alliance.org to read more about corporate censorship…

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