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I must admit that I’m not the biggest Nine Inch Nails fan, but some of their songs are really good. A friend of mine told me that Nine Inch Nails are now very angry about us Austrians because of this years Frequency. Guess not necessarily the crowd was to blame (well, it was somehow), but who in god’s name puts NIN right between Beatstakes and Die Ärzte? Well, we probably will never find out, but that was a very bad idea. Totally different types of music.

But the main reason why I write this post and why the headline looks that flashy, is this video: NIN live in Sydney. And the words at the beginning are (without a joke):

I called them [my record label] out for being greedy fucking assholes. I didn’t get a chance to check, has the price come down at all? I see a no, a no… Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - Steal it!. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that that’s not right.

Trent Reznor said something similar a year ago, afair in a magazine, about the ridiculous prices down in Australia, and according to him that’s because his record label thinks: “that there are great fans there, which are willed to pay more money”.

Now his message doesn’t mean that you should start stealing all kinds of music, all around the world. As far as I understand this Trent is very, very angry about his recording company and their insane policies. The problem is that nowadays the labels make the money, not so much the artists. And then there are some creepy organizations that do stuff like suing moms for listening to illegally downloaded “Gangsta Rap”, want to get their underage daughters to curt to say out against them.

The music business is without a doubt, completely fucked up. And I don’t think that will become any better, even worse. Now where we all start buying compressed music online they don’t have to spend any money on printing or booklets. And the bad sound quality (yes, I *can* hear the difference) and the missing booklets are the reason why I still go to my local music store and buy CDs.

Maybe some more, especially independent artists, should stand up and start publishing their music on their own. Hopefully something in that broken system improves the next years… I really hope so.

Speaking of music, listen to some more Pure Reason Revolution.

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