Whilst I am in agreement on the idiocy of cutting off internet connections in response to file sharing, and loathe Lily Allen, and feel that the music industry is a bloated dinosaur blinking at the oncoming K-T extinction event, and don't see that people who can't pay consuming free-to-copy media is essentially a problem... I have a problem with the following:
I hate the musicians who come over saying "You'll have to pay, because otherwise we'll be poor." Because I am wont to retort "But we have never been anything but poor - and you got in because of your rich Daddy so you have never been anything other than rich!" followed by some two-word invective or other.
You don't think that being an artist should be a paying job, then? Because all artists have rich daddies? And so every creator of content should provide it for free? Even as polemic this is bollocks:-D
(edited for userpic... I've bought most of Mr Christopherson's oeuvre, and am happy that this keeps him in - hopefully comparative luxury in - a jungle compound full of wet-eyed thai boys)
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Date: 2009-10-16 10:51 am (UTC)I hate the musicians who come over saying "You'll have to pay, because otherwise we'll be poor." Because I am wont to retort "But we have never been anything but poor - and you got in because of your rich Daddy so you have never been anything other than rich!" followed by some two-word invective or other.
You don't think that being an artist should be a paying job, then? Because all artists have rich daddies? And so every creator of content should provide it for free? Even as polemic this is bollocks:-D
(edited for userpic... I've bought most of Mr Christopherson's oeuvre, and am happy that this keeps him in - hopefully comparative luxury in - a jungle compound full of wet-eyed thai boys)