“I know that what we’re doing flies in the face of the Kickstarter Amanda-Palmer-Start-a-Revolution thing, which is fine for her, but I’m not super-comfortable with the idea of Ziggy Stardust shaking his cup for scraps. I’m not saying offering things for free or pay-what-you-can is wrong. I’m saying my personal feeling is that my album’s not a dime. It’s not a buck. I made it as well as I could, and it costs 10 bucks, or go fuck yourself.”
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW AT SPIN:
http://www.spin.com/featured/trent-reznor-upward-spiral-nine-inch-nails-spin-cover-september-2013/
PRE ORDER THE ALBUM ON ITUNES NOW:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hesitation-marks/id655150305
It’s very interesting to see Trent Reznor, once the poster child of the pay-what-you-want and anti-record label models for music now becoming the most ardent supporter of the “traditional” music industry that I can name…
and let’s not forget thom yorke of radiohead who has also done a complete 180…
http://musictechpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/thom-yorke-on-google-the-commoditizer/
Music, like a certain other activity, is usually done for love or money. A lot of pirates nod enthusiastically at this right up until they realize that, if there’s no money in it and a musician has to do it for love … that if I don’t love you, you don’t get any. 🙂
They keep missing this part. Yes, musicians will MAKE music no matter what. But we don’t have to share it with anyone other than the people we want to share it with. In order to get into that room, now you need to persuade me you should be there. Before, you could throw money at me, and I’d let you in. Now that there’s no money in it, I need another reason. Be an asshole, and you don’t get in.
Even the threat of not making money will only work on artists for so long. They won’t just hang around and starve. Eventually, they will read the writing on the wall, bow to reality, and simply get other jobs and decouple their artistic output from their financial input. And then they really don’t have to share our music with just anyone.
The pirate kids really aren’t following this thing to its logical conclusion:
1) Decouple money from art. Then,
2) Artists get day jobs and keep them. Hence,
3) We don’t need to share our art with anyone if we don’t want to.
So make me want to.
Oh … and without handing me money, which would have been the simplest way to accomplish that, but that’s not working anymore, is it?
Neither will acting like a tantrum-throwing, entitled brat. 🙂