Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes 860
drcagn writes "Gene Simmons has blasted 'college' kids and claims that they have destroyed the music industry, with the labels also to blame for not properly suing them out of existence when they had the chance. When asked about Radiohead and Trent Reznor's recent support of a different direction in music distribution, he says "that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say 'Come on in and pay whatever you want.' Are you on f---ing crack?" When asked about music being free and making money off of merchandise, he says, "The most important part is the music. Without that, why would you care?" even though earlier in the interview he brags that he believes that KISS's merchandise is more profitable than Elvis's or the Beatles.'"
Re:Well, he's over 40. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:He's right though (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Well, he's over 40. (Score:3, Informative)
No, he didn't write or speak it... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Well, he's over 40. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Well, he's over 40. (Score:3, Informative)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=374518 [google.com] (Thanks to another poster earlier in the thread.)
Re:Capitals? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Capitals? (Score:5, Informative)
It's not a deep nugget of wisdom. It was a clever insult. Best not to read too deeply into it.
But then, those who are using it are probably not the best judges of brains anyway:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=112 [winstonchurchill.org]
Re:Well, he's over 40. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Well, he's over 40. (Score:5, Informative)
I had a thing or two to say about 8-tracks a couple of years ago in Good Riddance to Bad Tech [kuro5hin.org].
I honestly think a band like KISS could get away with giving their music away for free, since they have other avenues available to them to make a crapload of money
He works for the record company, and has worked for the record company for almost 40 years. You badmouth your employer at your own risk.
I have always been amused by Lynard Skynard's Working for MCA, especially the verry beginning of the song - it starts out with the buzz of an ungrounded amp, and it's obvious (to me anyway) that they put that there on purpose.
I never heard the CD version, is the buzz still there? From all the bad remixing for CD I've heard in various RIAA fare, I'd bet it's gone.
-mcgrew [mcgrew.info]
Re:Capitals? (Score:5, Informative)
That's not to say it shouldn't be cheaper, or that there isn't plenty of waste, but I personally think that doctors and researchers should be paid well, I think that we should have very good (read: expensive) people managing all the systems involved, and I am willing to pay for the safety and the new technology.
Universal healthcare, or health insurance in general isn't about making healthcare cheaper, but rather about making the people with Jaguars subsidize the inherently high cost of healthcare for those with Kias.
A great universal healthcare system would reward hospitals who successfully improve efficiency without impacting quality, but and acceptable universal healthcare system will not worsen efficiency and provide affordable healthcare to poorer americans, because we find value in our working class not dieing of cholera.
Re:I have no brain (Score:3, Informative)
It's against making money and the pursuit of wealth into an idol, but it's not intrinsically anti-capitalist. Take the story of Anias and Sapphira in Acts for example. They sold a field for profit and gave some of the proceeds to the church, but lied about how much. What was their sin? If capitalism was wrong, you'd think they would be criticised for not giving everything to the church, but they're not. Instead, they're punished for lying. Making money was no problem and neither was keeping some of it. Making it an idol was the problem.
Rock Band? (Score:3, Informative)
Simmons falls into the same category as Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly. The worse thing that can ever happen to them is to be ignored. If you really want him to be as irrelevant as he ultimately is, you'll ignore his idiotic rambling. Even his reality show is staged. It's all a farce and he's laughing at all of us for even taking the time to call him a douchebag.
Re:Taxes and agression (Score:3, Informative)
The federal budget is, obviously, free for all to peruse. According to my math, our debt service last year amount to about 13% of our federal budget.
Not a small amount, but no where NEAR "most."
Re:Logic? (Score:3, Informative)
Its value is the standard unit of currency exchange the world over and is used to measure purchasing power in many countries because it's the most stable form of currency. An ounce of gold today purchases the same amount of goods and services as it would have 30 years ago, for example.
Why? because it just happens to be. There's no real written in stone reason for it. If another candidate stepped forward to become the new standard currency, it'd happen nearly instantly and nobody would pay much attention to it whatsoever. It would be just another novelty bit of trivia.
But it's wrong to say that gold is expensive because we all agreed on it. Nobody gets to decide that.