iTunes under threat as bands take their business elsewhere<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nMy blood started to boil when I read the quotes.\u00c2\u00a0 Because these rich motherfuckers, who happen to have made some great music, are living in the nineties and ONLY care about money.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s this lip service to creating albums that must be heard this way, but if that’s the case, why don’t they put out records that are one giant cut, so we’re FORCED to listen to the whole damn record.\u00c2\u00a0 Like everybody’s got an hour to sit down and listen to your irrelevant opus.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, the band hasn’t done anything phenomenal, hasn’t made an album worth listening to from beginning to end since "Back In Black", begging the question whether what I heard was true…\u00c2\u00a0 That Bon Scott had a hand in writing that material just before he died.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems like it to me, because they haven’t come CLOSE since.\u00c2\u00a0 Even working with Mutt Lange, the best record producer in the world, "For Those About To Rock" was a huge bringdown.\u00c2\u00a0 I know, because I bought it.\u00c2\u00a0 And was incredibly disappointed.<\/p>\n
In the days since, they’ve put out a few good cuts.\u00c2\u00a0 Like "Who Made Who".\u00c2\u00a0 And this new album they’re releasing is better than anything they’ve done since "Back In Black".\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s not "Back In Black".\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s a big deal.\u00c2\u00a0 Because AC\/DC has exploded this decade…\u00c2\u00a0 AS A RESULT OF FILE-TRADING!<\/p>\n
They’re the second biggest catalog seller.\u00c2\u00a0 Behind the Beatles.\u00c2\u00a0 WHY?\u00c2\u00a0 Because kids have traded their songs and found out how great their classics are.\u00c2\u00a0 But now they want to fuck these same kids in the ass and make them buy their new album at Wal-Mart.\u00c2\u00a0 So they can make fuckloads of money.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole world is listening to files, shuffling their tracks, but these ignorant musicians from Down Under don’t seem to have gotten the message.\u00c2\u00a0 Why don’t they tell everybody to give up their computers and use typewriters while they’re at it.<\/p>\n
The joke is illegal acquisition will dwarf CD sales.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever is sold legitimately will be distributed online INSTANTLY!\u00c2\u00a0 Which is great for the band ultimately.\u00c2\u00a0 Breeding new fans.\u00c2\u00a0 But, like the rest of the industry, the band wants to ignore this.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though without the aforementioned trading of the past decade their tour would not instantly sell out.<\/p>\n
At least throw kids a bone.\u00c2\u00a0 Let them buy tracks legitimately.\u00c2\u00a0 But just like the inane industry they’re part of, AC\/DC doesn’t want fans to have it their way.\u00c2\u00a0 They must have never been to a Burger King…<\/p>\n
The number one music market is not Wal-Mart, but iTunes, which is just a click away.\u00c2\u00a0 But no, we’re supposed to drive to the heinous mass marketer who only made this deal so they could sell more crap that puts American workers and small towns out of business.<\/p>\n
Who gives a shit about AC\/DC.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m fighting this battle against an industry that doesn’t only refuse to change, but won’t acknowledge REALITY!\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, I didn’t listen to "Back In Black" all the way through every time when I only had the VINYL!\u00c2\u00a0 Oftentimes, I’d drop the needle on "You Shook Me All Night Long".\u00c2\u00a0 The band is just interested in a price point. Otherwise, I want them to explain to me how ANYBODY getting a taste is gonna fuck them up.\u00c2\u00a0 Why don’t they ban singles from the radio too!<\/p>\n
FURTHERMORE, all this bullshit about not making stuff available on iTunes, how it kills catalog sales…\u00c2\u00a0 I met with Warner Brothers, the cume of both Zeppelin and Metallica WENT UP after they were available on iTunes, IT DID NOT KILL THEIR SALES!<\/p>\n
Wake up and live in the twenty first century.<\/p>\n
But it gets worse.\u00c2\u00a0 I wake up to a phone call from the head of the band’s label.\u00c2\u00a0 I tell him about the aforementioned article in the "Telegraph".\u00c2\u00a0 And what does he tell me?\u00c2\u00a0 ANGUS DOESN’T TALK LIKE THAT, ANGUS WOULDN’T USE THE WORD "STAGGERING", HE DOESN’T BELIEVE THE QUOTES ARE REAL!<\/p>\n
But it gets worse.\u00c2\u00a0 When I don’t buy that, this guy calls up the publicity guy in the U.K. and gets back to me and says the interview never happened.\u00c2\u00a0 So I ask him, ARE YOU GOING TO SUE THE TELEGRAPH???<\/p>\n
Then they get the indie publicity guy to call me.\u00c2\u00a0 He says the interview wasn’t on the schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 He asks me to hold off while they do research.\u00c2\u00a0 ULTIMATELY, this same bloke gets back to me and tells me the interview did happen, but in Germany…<\/p>\n
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK??<\/p>\n
It’s AC\/DC.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll sell a shitload of albums.\u00c2\u00a0 Every concert ticket.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not brain surgery.\u00c2\u00a0 The fucking financial system is melting down and these guys act like AC\/DC is just as important.\u00c2\u00a0 IT’S NOT!<\/p>\n
But they’re working me.\u00c2\u00a0 Lying to me.\u00c2\u00a0 All in service OF THIS?<\/p>\n
This is how America works.\u00c2\u00a0 Worldbeaters with all the money, forces of nature, create their own reality and try to sell it to us.<\/p>\n
DON’T BELIEVE THE NEWSPAPER?\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t this just what the Republicans have been telling us for YEARS?\u00c2\u00a0 If we don’t believe the newspaper, who are we supposed to believe? YOU?\u00c2\u00a0 Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not saying the press always has it right, but it’s independent and trying to nail down the truth.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s its job.\u00c2\u00a0 Not lying, cheating and stealing so it can make more money.\u00c2\u00a0 At least the press sans Fox News.<\/p>\n
We live in a fucked up country.\u00c2\u00a0 If they’re even tracking down me to spread their lies, you know things have gotten out of hand.<\/p>\n
AC\/DC is wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Their album should be available digitally, track by track.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, it’s like saying you can’t fuck without being in love, that you can only drive with a full tank of gas, THAT ONLY REPUBLICANS HAVE THE ANSWERS!<\/p>\n
This will all blow over.\u00c2\u00a0 AC\/DC will release their irrelevant album, make their money and go home.\u00c2\u00a0 But someone’s got to blow the whistle here.\u00c2\u00a0 And reveal how these fucks, both the labels and the acts, want to create their own version of the truth and force people to buy it.<\/p>\n
We live in a track world.\u00c2\u00a0 You can either admit it, or get run over by the future.\u00c2\u00a0 AC\/DC’s album will be available track by track.\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s how it will be listened to.\u00c2\u00a0 The only difference is, THEY’RE NOT GOING TO GET PAID!<\/p>\n
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