[Cancer]

U2 manager takes Internet providers to task - Yahoo! News

[BigM555]

Gee, the opinion of a music industry manager and he doesn't like things that threaten his business model.

[Chris]

I miss the days when rock starts just did drugs and banged sluts, instead of getting politically and socially active, making statements that we're supposed to listen to because they're famous. Singing a song doesn't make your opinion more valid than mine.



* Chris is looking at YOU, Eddie Vedder.

[Shawn]

Originally Posted by Chris

I miss the days when rock starts just did drugs and banged sluts, instead of getting politically and socially active, making statements that we're supposed to listen to because they're famous. Singing a song doesn't make your opinion more valid than mine.



* Chris is looking at YOU, Eddie Vedder.

[Popsyche]

Originally Posted by Chris

I miss the days when rock starts just did drugs and banged sluts, instead of getting politically and socially active, making statements that we're supposed to listen to because they're famous. Singing a song doesn't make your opinion more valid than mine.



* Chris is looking at YOU, Eddie Vedder.

Michael Stipe

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Chris

I miss the days when rock starts just did drugs and banged sluts, instead of getting politically and socially active, making statements that we're supposed to listen to because they're famous. Singing a song doesn't make your opinion more valid than mine.



* Chris is looking at YOU, Eddie Vedder.

*Lee is the resident Pearl Jam fanboy

[s7eve]

Boohoo, oh the poor recording industry :crocodiletears: Karma's a bitch isn't it, been raping honest people for years and when you start to get your own back you want everyone to go to jail.

I don't illegally download music, the music that I do download is free music supplied by the artist, I buy the rest. But the way that the recording industry carries on about kids stealing their music and lying by saying that it hurts the artist makes me not want to buy anything from the established music industry again. Get a fucking clue, no one in the world has bought a copy of Chinese Democracy yet but I guarantee that Axl is not hurting over it.

I dream of the day that there is a good site just for unsigned bands where people can go buy their music at a reasonable price directly from the artist and know that the money is going to the artist. I hope the establishment dies a miserable death.

[JJ Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Cancer

U2 manager takes Internet providers to task - Yahoo! News

The fact that he's bitching about portable media players, and U2 was all about doing that stupid ad for the iPod?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Lee

*Lee is the resident Pearl Jam fanboy

Pearl Jam was fucking awesome before Eddie became Neil Young's bitch.

[Uber Mega]

Originally Posted by U2 manager takes Internet providers to task

In a passionate keynote speech delivered Monday during the International Managers Summit at the MIDEM music conference, McGuinness said it was time for artists to stand up against what he called the "shoddy, careless and downright dishonest way they have been treated in the digital age."

Treating the artists in a "shoddy, careless and downright dishonest" way?? I thought that has been the manager's job since about the 60s? A lot of managers are money-grabbing assholes.