"The record industry doesn't have a f---ing clue how to make money. It's only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there's no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. How can you pick on them? They've got freckles. That's a crook. He may as well be wearing a bandit's mask.
Doesn't affect me. But imagine being a new band with dreams of getting on stage and putting out your own record. Forget it."
Those of you that are long-time "5" readers know that, to put it mildly, there is very little common ground we share with Kiss bassist/vocalist and all-around cringemeister Gene Simmons. But we've got to say, while we don't agree wholesale with the methodology espoused in his above remarks to the Reuters news service about the current state of the music business, we're not gonna argue with the spirit of it. Maybe he'll start some serious and productive discussions on the subject at hand and how to salvage some of it. Nah, probably not.
Here's the rest of the interview.
