There's this guy, who clearly really, really likes musis. He has a whole website full of stuff about music he loves, music he listens to, music he thinks you should listen to. He probably cares more about a music than a lot of people who are involved in the business of it. With mixed feelings, he has downloaded 12 unpaid for items of music. And he has written a letter to the music industry explaining why in each of these cases, why he felt justified in doing it.
Take the Kyo album he snagged.
Kyo are a French band I had to go to France to discover, and wasn't that supposed to be the kind of thing I'm paying you for? While you were watching people vying on TV to be the next disposable idol, I was wondering what the rest of the world sounds like.
And then the out of print Joe Jackson albums.
I have stolen from you where you have betrayed the music. Why are these two great Joe Jackson albums out of print? Go ahead, sue me. If you were doing your job, I'd have paid for them already.
The dude's on fire, OK?
You created the aesthetic of disposability, and now you are its most beautifully disposable work. We will mourn you in infinite song.
Ooh, snap!
I recommend you check out his whole diatribe.
