7 Famous Album Covers That Were Censored For Ridiculous Reasons

6. Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet

Reason for Censorship: A Toilet. If record companies are to be believed, putting a picture of a toilet on the front of your album is akin to directly urinating all over your adoring fans. You might as well wrap your record in a used condom and have homeless people sell them out of a hot dog cart. How classless! The original iteration of The Rolling Stones' 1968 classic, Beggar's Banquet, featured a dingy bathroom stall on its cover, as seen from the view of a man relieving himself. There was nothing particularly offensive about it, though, and actually sounds worse than it looks. The photo was a little grungy looking, of course, and there was a sly reference to Bob Dylan thrown in as wall graffiti, but nothing that was overly distasteful. Still, the Stones were forced to change the cover, opting for the image of a boring RSVP card with the band name and album title presented in delicate calligraphy. It may be classier, but it doesn't really fit with an album containing songs like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man."