HT204406 Censored version of songs

I was listening to a song where certain adult lyrics were "blanked" out. According to the Parental preferences in iTunes 12.1.2.27 (under Yosemite 10.10.3), I never chose to restrict content from the store with explicit content (see image). This doesn't seem to apply to iTunes Match. How do I get the uncensored version of songs as, at 31 years old, I'm fairly certain I hear worse in my day-to-day life than the contents of most of these lyrics!

Apparently this has been a bug for some time as Apple acknowledged back in 2012 - yet still no fix.
See http://mac.softpedia.com/blog/iTunes-Match-Censoring-Bug-Acknowledged-by-Apple-2 50450.shtml
Disappointed in Apple.
Scott

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