Shhhh.....The WalMart can hear you!

Now this second bit of the news made me laugh, particularly because it reminded me of a rather hilarious episode of South Park in which a WalMart moves into the neighborhood and soon becomes a living, breathing entity bent on sucking everything and everyone into its bowels in the manner of a black hole. Well, it appears now that Trey Parker and Matt Stone may have not been too far off in their humorous jab at the hated corporation.
AC/DC, the undisputed kings of squealing vocals and redundant guitar riffs, have once again blessed the music world with a new album, chock full of songs that a sure to sound exactly like the four or five tunes most classic rocks stations keep in constant rotation. Even the albums title, Black Ice, invites connections to their previous material. The band's 1980 release, Back in Black, was their highest selling, so perhaps the boys are hoping to return to a time when someone actually gave a shit that they were active musicians.
Quality of AC/DC's music aside, the disturbing thing here is that the album will be sold exclusively at WalMart stores. How, with rising dominance of online music sales through such pay-per-song services such as ITunes, can a store secure such a position? Shady to be sure, but not entirely scary, because if WalMart wants to be the only one in bed with AC/DC, I'm 100% cool with that.