Starbucks have announced they will not be stocking the new Bruce Springsteen album in the CD racks that appear in most of their US stores because they are concerned about its adult content. The chart topping album, ‘Devils and Dust’, is the first Springsteen release to come with a parental advisory sticker, perhaps relating to the track ‘Reno’ which apparently “describes an explicit encounter with a prostitute”.
However Starbucks were keen to stress that they sold only a limited number of CDs in their stores, and that their concerns about the album simply meant they had decided it was not a high enough a priority to be given a slot in their CD racks. The album is being sold in their two specialist Hear Music shops in California.