qwop - Fair enough. The main issue is that people are arguing their way around not paying for something that they know they know cost musicians time and money. You can make all the points you want (and honestly not all of them are bad ideas) about the direction the music industry could move toward, but acting like it's our position to tell musicians how to conduct their business seems ridiculously arrogant to me. "Hit the road more, boys, cuz I'm pirating your stuff anyway" is a pretty selfish attitude for anyone claims to care at all about the musicians they like.
People get really hung up on the semantics of "theft" versus "piracy." Theft: swiping a physical CD from the rack; thus, leaving the store short one CD. Piracy: taking an intangible good without paying for it, leaving no physical shortage of the product.
If I sit down for a haircut and run out the door before I pay for it, is that any less moral than torrenting? I haven't depleted the barber of any of his physical inventory.
The guy was on tour last year. I'm not even the world's biggest CVB or Cracker fan, but as a guy who's been in the business for around 30 years, I think he's earned the right to add his two cents.
My only big problem with the article is that Lowery had to go and make me feel guilty for using Spotify. I've been doing the $10/month premium deal for the last six months thinking it was a fairly guilt-free way of checking out new stuff. I guess some things are too good to be true. I still spend way too much money on physical albums though because I'm a vinyl geek. The inclusion of the free download voucher with a vinyl purchase is the smartest practice record companies have adopted in years.
Thank you. The "I'm a poor college student, and I'm entitled to free entertainment" argument drives me up the wall. Same with the "If they didn't make it so expensive, I wouldn't have to steal it" logic.
I actually didn't hear this album until 2001, right after I graduated high school. I strangely bought all the Mr. Bungle albums first (I was a huge Zappa fan looking for other "weird" music) and then worked my way toward Faith No More. Angel Dust took a few listens to sink in, but I quickly grew to love it. I remember spending a lot my freshman year of college holed up in my room listening to it. I wound up becoming a huge Mike Patton geek for a while, and while my interest in Patton has cooled over the years, Angel Dust is still one of my favorites. However, I still think Bungle's California is Mike Patton's true masterpiece.
"I love how people call someone awful names and throw out insults about someone they do not know."
I thought this was the reason the internet was invented.
I don't know. He seemed pretty happy and together on the recent WTF interview. Then again, I've kind of lost track of the Flaming Lips ever since they veered a little too far into the weird-rather-than-good territory for my taste.
A while back, Wayne ran his mouth off about the guys in Arcade Fire being assholes, to which they humbly responded, "Huh?" I think Wayne kind of backpedaled on that one out of embarrassment.
Yup. A pretty quick step toward relieving financial woes is to move to a place that isn't one of the most expensive cities in the country. She could probably get a part-time job at a Pier 1 in Athens and do okay for herself.
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