As early as August 14 , 1998 , a month before the release , the three largest retailers in the United States — K-Mart , Wal-Mart and Target — refused to stock the album citing the offensive cover and the expectation that it will carry a Parental Advisory sticker for violating their policy of not selling material with explicit lyrics or content . In an attempt to appease some of the retailers Nothing and Interscope discussed plans to cover the " breasts " with a sticker and enclose the entire package in blue cellophane — similar to the brown paper bag tactic employed exactly 30 years before by distributors on the explicitly nude cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's '' Unfinished Music No. 1 : Two Virgins '' . Wal-Mart still refused to sell the album , and consequently pulled all previous albums by Manson in light of the Columbine High School massacre on April 20 , 1999
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine High School massacre
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