Hypocrisy is hilarious!

To brief this rant, I can't stand hypocrites. I've recently realized/witnessed two different instances of hypocrisy that boggle my mind. I feel as though I need to share them with you.

Up first: People want HDTVs and Blu-ray players so they can watch movies in the highest quality possible, but when it comes to music, people will take the shittiest quality (I'm talking about you mp3s) just as long as its portable. I understand people's perpetual quest for convenience in the modern world, so I understand full well how the mp3 became the dominant music format; its small and portable players used to only be a few GBs so you couldn't hold that many hi-fidelity files. This is now a ridiculously antiquated concept given that mp3 device capacity is large enough to compensate for all the hi-fi music files our little hearts desire. Yeah, you might not be able to put 50,000 hi-fi songs on your iPod, but who seriously needs that much music available to them at any one given time? There isn't enough time in a day, let alone a week to listen to that much music. Go buy a hard drive to keep your music catalog on, put 2,000 hi-fidelity songs on your iPod so that you can listen to your favorite bands the way they intended you to hear them! If you insist on listening to terrible sounding mp3s, even though your mp3 player has the capacity to hold bigger and better quality files, you make no sense. I want you to throw a brick through your plasma TV, bust out the old tube TV in the basement, dust off the VHS player and re-re-buy every Blu-ray in your collection on VHS. Doesn't make much sense and neither does wanting the highest quality of one media and the lowest quality for another.

That was a whole rant onto itself, but wait...there's more. If you haven't heard, Walmart won't carry Green Day's new CD because they won't create a "clean" version for sale specifically for them...HOLD ON A SECOND...WHAT?...SERIOUSLY? That's not right at all. You can bet your ass that Walmart is still carrying R-rated movies and MA video games!

Now, someone please explain to me why Walmart has an issue with Parental Advisory stickers on CDs, but not R-rated movies (complete with nudity and cursing) and video games with more violence then you see in those R-rated movies. Their logic is flawed. If you have "principles" then they should be the same across the board, otherwise they aren't really "principles".

Eron