Censored record covers - No. 3

To finish my little report about censored record covers, this entry is again about album covers of actual bands that had been pulled before they could be released or after they had hit the market.

Here is an example of a macabre coincidence that forced the record company and the band to replace the picture of the cover:
The hip-hop band The Coup wanted to release a new record with a cover depicted the World Trade Center exploding.
Two months after finishing the artwork for the cover (the record wasn’t released, yet), the terroristic attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers let the picture become a terrible reality.

"We changed the artwork as soon as we saw what had happened," said Daria Kelly, director of sales for 75 Ark, the band's label.
Hours after two hijacked airliners actually smashed in to the WTC, the picture was taken off from the company’s website.

Jane's Addiction - "Ritual De Lo Habitual"

The American band Jane’s Addiction tried to release their album “Ritual De Lo Habitual” with a cover which shows three naked people barely covered with a red blanket. Too much for the American public found the guardian of the public morals, and directed the band and their management to replace the album cover immediately.

The band expressed their protests against this repression with a white cover and a reprint of the First Amendment to the US constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech. Nevertheless, the original cover found its way to the huge public through the internet and caught much more attention than it might had if it had not been recalled.