Bonooooooorrrrlllllllll! I know you are a rock star and a defender of the planet and I really like Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum and even Zooropa, but come on, “reverse Robin Hood”? You’re so wrong.
This is not about reverse Robin Hooding. This is not about the providers stealing from you. This is about two groups of fat cats fighting for money. First, your rich you and your rich pals at the music industry. Second, those rich service providers. In the middle, getting sandwiched between your throbbing shameless practices and thick hypocrisy, is the people. I can’t speak for the rest, but I’m sick of you both.
And while we are talking about Robin Hood, and giving gold schillings from the rich to the poor, let’s talk about your tax evasion practices to avoid redistributing your wealth in Ireland. [BBC]
Terry O'Fee
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 10:03 AMAll this is going to do is make him look as idiotic as Lily Allen. We all know how well that worked out for her…. *goes back to listening to Nine Inch Nails*
miles
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:19 AMa decade of music file-sharing shows that people want easy access to digital music and that they are no longer prepared to pay over-inflated prices (for record companies to over-produce crap music and advertise the hell out of it)
the creators used to be at the mercy of the record company for the production and distribution – now they can record it and sell it from their room and now we, the (actual) people, can cut out the middle men and buy direct from the artist
Michael
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:49 AMThe music industry has been claiming piracy is killing it since 8-track and the greasey toads are still around. The truth is; music as a comoodity isn’t worth what it once was. The market is saturated with competition from DVD’s, videogames, the internet and even from artists themselves given away art for the joy of creating it. You see more creative thought in a day of watching Youtube than gets pumped out of Hollywood in an entire year.
The music industry’s agenda is lobbying to have governments legislate their business models to compell consumers to buy overpriced product for the benefit of their shareholders. Congratulations Bono on becoming an annointed soldier for Universal, Sony and Time-Warner.
Does anyone seriously believe that if the music industry collapses it will mean an end to music as an art? About the only thing that will happen is music will be returned to people as free expression rather being bought from the middle men that have appropriated part of the human condition.
Could the ‘music industry’ just choke on it’s own vomit an die already?
Kif
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PMA agree with all of the above.
cdbaby.com
Owned and run by the artists to cut out the middle men. You can only sell through this site if you’re an independant artist without a label. Nearly 300,000 albums are currently available. You can listen to part of the track straight from the site and buy indivdual or entire albums in MP3 format with instant download, or get a physical CD sent out. Smart move.
Nathan Young
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 1:32 AMAmen to the above!
Why can’t more bands just realise all they need now is a small personal loan, a recording studio, and an internet ad firm?
It’s time for the record companies to go.
TV shows are worse. I mean, I actually like getting a CD with my music on it (and hate that iTunes music is a crappy 128kbps AAC for the same price as a 48khz red-hat CD). But TV shows, geez, if the tv stations just put it online as a download I would download it legally from them, even with ads included! I mean, it’s not like I watch the ads when I watch TV anyway.