But late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain said in a 1991 interview with Hot Metal that the only sticker he would use was one that said, "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile." The record company released the album without any censoring. As Snopes points out, Michael Azerrad's book Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana reports that art director Robert Fisher also brought up the idea of censoring the image by airbrushing out the nudity. The BBC reports that the lawsuit also claims that Nirvana said a sticker would be used to cover Elden's genitals, but that didn't happen. "Neither Spencer nor his legal guardians ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him," the lawsuit reads, according to Variety. The lawsuit also claims that Elden's parents did not sign a release granting the image to be used for the album cover. As Variety notes, non-sexualized images of babies are not generally considered to be pornography. Lewis, claims that the digital inclusion of the money dangling in front of him makes baby Elden appear "like a sex worker," which he argues makes the image child pornography. As reported by Variety, Elden's lawyer, Robert Y.
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