Backtracking and Subliminal Messages

The idea of Pink Floyd’s, The Wall, syncing up with The Wizard of Oz made me think about the idea of backtracking and the colorful history that this phenomena has. The idea that artists are putting messages in reverse on their CD’s in order to get the listener to complete a desired action is debatable and a very heated argument to this day. No one denies that backtracking exists, the fact that some musicians have come out and said that they did put messages embedded within their music proves that it does exist, what makes me wonder if people can be “brainwashed” into doing things due to subliminal messages on a record.
An example of musicians being held culpable for the actions of others occurred in the 1990’s with the band Judas Priest. The band was charged and put on trial for the death of a young man supposedly suicidal from hidden messages within the music. One website had this to say about the trial and the proceedings, Judas Priest was a British heavy metal rock band-one of the first of that genre. Their popularity peaked in the mid-70s. The album in question (Stained Class) was produced in 1978; the shootings took place in December 1985. It was alleged that a particular subliminal phrase in one of their songs ("Better by You Better than me") on the album triggered a suicidal impulse.” http://www.csicop.org/si/9611/judas_priest.html .
Though the lawsuit was eventually dismissed, the question remains as to whether or not someone’s actions can be influenced by subliminal messages hidden within pieces of music. I personally feel that they do not, though I am not denying that some artists do backtrack I feel that they reasoning behind the act is not as sinister as the plaintiffs at the Vance V. Judas Priest trial believed them to be. If such things were true, and people could be so easily influenced by hidden messages that more fans of Judas Priest would have done it, whatever it is.
We live in a society that needs to find someone to blame, it is to heartbreaking for those parents of the boy who killed himself to believe that he did it of his own free will. It is much easier to place the blame on the shoulders of someone else. For example, Weird Al did his own backtracking on a song in which he says that Satan loves cheese, or something along those lines. After hearing the song repeatedly (before knowing of the backtracking) I had no idea of Lucifer’s chose in dairy products, for all I knew he could have been lactose intolerant. My point is that I think backtracking is merely something fun for musicians to do, yet does not act as a tool of mass mind control. Now that being said I am going to go and listen to Judas Priest and try not to “do it” whatever it might be.

Question: Do you think subliminal messages embedded within a musical composition can influence them to do some specific action, like kill themselves?