Music Peeve

I hate it when songs are edited for lyrical content. I especially hate it when the producers (I think that's the people who would do this) do it crappily. Several examples lately... From the Smile Empty Soul song "Nowhere kids" the real line is The fucking bastards that you created... the edited version... The Ef [beat of silence] bastards that you created. They also edit out damn in the song. So this is one I downloaded so I really didn't know that was what I was getting. (and probably shouldn't complain too much). While I lived in CA, I bought TLC's Fanmail. I could've sworn it said explicit lyrics on the CD case. So I listen and don't really notice until I lose that copy of the CD and buy a new one. Oh my was I shocked at the difference. This one song called U in Me that was almost entirely edited out since it is all about well... should be obvious. :) Another song has THE N word peppered liberally through it and instead of playing it they do a little musical noise. I also have a downloaded version of St. Anger by Metallica and the line "Fuck it all and no regrets" they play a static noise over fuck. Seriously if we have to pander to the overly conservative republican parents, can't the music industry have the artists record 2 versions of the song so that when subjected to the edited version there's no weird gaps and silence and sometimes random noise. Because really, that makes it so much more obvious. And how is fuck and damn edited out (ok fuck I can see, but damn?) yet bastard is kept in? To me that word is so much more offensive.