This day in music history.

August 24, 1990, A Nevada judge clears Judas Priest in a $6.2 million civil suit that charged the group's recordings provoked two youths to shoot themselves in 1985. One of the boys died instantly by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun, the other also shot himself but survived, severely disfiguring his face in the attempt. The boys parents had charged in the lawsuit that the band's "Stained Class" album contained subliminal messages that drove two teen-agers to attempt suicide. Specificity they claim the song "Better by You Better Than Me" contained the message "do it" repeated over and over. One of the parents lawyers told the judge that Judas Priest was "meddling in the mysteries of the human mind." Judas Priest members commented that if they wanted to insert subliminal commands in their music, killing their fans would be counterproductive, and they would prefer to insert the command "Buy more of our records".
Better By You Better Than Me
You could find a way to ease my passion
You listen to the blood flow in my veins
You hear the teaching of the wind
Tell her why I'm alive within
I can't find the words
My mind is dead
It's better by you better than me
Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried
To speak up thoughts I've held so inside
Tell her now I got to go
Out in the streets and down the shore
Tell her the world's not much living for
It's better by you better than me
Everybody
Everybody knows
Everybody
Everybody knows
Better by you better than me
You can tell what I want it to be
You can say what I only can see
It's better by you better than me
Guess I'll have to change my way of living
Don't wanna really know the way I feel
Guess I'll learn to fight and kill
Tell her not to wait until
They'll find my blood upon her window
sill
It's better by you better than me
Everybody
Everybody knows
Everybody
Everybody knows
Better by you better than me
You can say what I only can see
You can tell what I want it to be
It's better by you better than me
Better by you better than me
You can tell what I want it to be
You can say way all they can see
Better by you better than me