This is kind of amusing.
"Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work."The Story (long URL) and
The Slashdot Thread (not quite as long an URL)
Funny, I was unaware that the music industry had layed off 100,000 to 1,000,000 people. I must have missed that report.
The thing that I find amusing about him is that he's such a blowhard. Can't argue about success: he's earned a metric fuckton of money, as some say, and he continues to make it. Good for him. He's a rock god. Good for him. But at the same time, there are 41 Kiss albums on iTunes. So clearly he has no problem with music being distributed electronically, unless he's utterly ignorant of Kiss music being sold electronically, which I rather doubt that he is. Apparently he hasn't seen the reports, or he's entirely discounted them, that people who download music BUY MORE MUSIC.
I don't buy much music, and I don't download any. The last big expansion of my music library was when I got married and assimilated Russet's library, and I've since bought some more from the groups that she had. I would like to expand my music horizons a bit, just haven't gotten around to it. I'm expanding more in exploring other groups from the 70's and 80's rather than more modern bands because the groups that I liked simply are not recording any more, or in the case of people like Stan Rogers, are dead, or The Who, who are 50% dead.
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