Eddie Veder was throwing verbal punches at the current administration during Pearl Jam’s performance at Lollapalooza, and someone thought it might be inappropriate, so they cut out the good stuff during the Webcast. Just when you think that the major corporations who have fucked up the music industry enough already, are making good by providing us with some cool stuff, they show us just how ugly and crooked they really are. Shame on you AT&T, and get out of our music scene!! Sorry for the rant, but this really sucks and will be #4 added to my what the f*** category. Read the full story here.

The censored video in which AT&T decided they were going to control what they didn’t want you to hear along with the uncensored version:

Apparently AT&T were going to rebroadcast the performance uncensored, but I could not find it on their site. Anyone know if they held up their promise?

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 12:02 pm and is filed under general music news, lollapalooza, what the f***.