This is both amusing and stupid. In response to a price-fixing lawsuit, the recording industry agreed to give free CDs to public institutions such as colleges, libraries and schools. Washington State was the first to receive their free music but they aren't entirely pleased:

The Puget Sound Educational Service District, serving 35 school districts, received 1,300 copies of Houston's soaring rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner," a disc that includes just one other song, "America the Beautiful."

Other discs have raunchy rap lyrics deemed unsuitable for school libraries, and some librarians said it looked like the music companies were dumping stale inventory.

Here is another example:

Librarian Lara Weigand from the Tacoma Public Library in Washington is dubious that even half of the 1,325 CDs sent to her 10-library system meet that criteria: She said she doesn't need 57 copies of Three Mo Tenors, based on a 2001 PBS special about African-American tenors.

It doesn't appear that Washington is the only state affected by the dumping:

"We got a list of what titles were going to which of our recipients and we could see there were these little blips," said Ellen Cooper, an assistant Maryland attorney general and chief of the antitrust division.

Those blips included 1,221 Whitney Houston singles being unevenly distributed to the extent that a single library or school was assigned 50 of the same CD.

The agreement did include language to ensure that the recording industry was not simply dumping items which were not selling. To qualify, CDs had to have been on industry charts for 26 weeks or to have peaked in the top half of the charts.

Maybe they thought that included the "Excess Inventory" chart.