Manic Street Preachers dis Radiohead
p2pnet news | Music:- Manic Street Preachers bass player Nicky Wire has joined musicians who figure P2P and file sharing are ruining the music industry.
He also lit into Radiohead and The X Factor.
In the middle of a UK arena tour, Wire says Radiohead’s free Rainbows download stunt didn’t do much for music as a whole.
Radiohead haven’t released official sales figures, but the album is, “rumoured to have sold in the millions for an average price of £3,” says the Daily Star, quoting Wire as saying:
“Fair play to Radiohead for doing something different. It’s certainly great for publicity but I think it kind of demeans music. Music used to be a market, now it’s all gone digital. It’s worrying and it seems to be the way of the world at the moment. Sales are doing well everywhere else. Cinema is doing well, video games are doing well …
“… but music isn’t. The free download phenomenon is ruining the industry.”
Never mind, though, and now the Manics are “keen to take control of their own musical output” and might “sever connections with their own record label soon,” continues the Daily Star.
“I can’t bear The X Factor judges and the sh** they put out every year,” it has Wire declaring, adding:
“We have one more album with Sony, and are coming to the end of our publishing and merchandising deals. We want to do records ourselves. Labels are scared to move forward, we’re not.”
Also See:
Daily Star – Manics in a Panic, December 7, 2007
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December 12th, 2007 at 10:09 am
“but I think it kind of demeans music”
umm, didn’t monitizing music already do that? Not to mention taking away artistic talent and replacing it with a formula to make the most $$? The there is exerting control over the free advertising (radio, internet radio). oh wait that just applies to corporate owned music not indies.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Dear wordpress,
piss off I’m posting as slowly as I can.
Damn I’m talking to a computer program, must be time or another cup of coffee!
December 12th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Does the article say anything about the MSP not making a decent album in about ten years?
December 12th, 2007 at 10:21 am
“piss off I’m posting as slowly as I can”
heh
It does it to me too, and it’s my site
I have no idea why.
Cheers!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
My speed is at normal amounts. Anyways, how does digitizing music demean it? It does not! It does the opposite! It makes it more available and playable to the masses, and it starts to become an art form again.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:16 am
The availability is the problem in the eyes of the media associations. By controlling the availability of products, they control the price of those products. Suddenly, unlimited availability becomes the norm, and that control is lost. They still charge damn near $20 for a lot of new CDs (yes, $18.98 is “near $20″ so don’t gripe about a technicality). I ain’t buying it.
The RIAA had two choices (and still has them): they can either use the unlimited availability the way a spacecraft uses the gravity of a large body in space to gain amazing momentum, or they can sue people for doing something which, while some cases of it are illegal, is ironically benefiting the very giants that hate it.
Why don’t they realize that p2p file sharing is BOOSTING SALES?
It seems to me that the RIAA and MPAA could reel in a FORTUNE if they would silently stop suing customers, remove DRM from their products, and just let loose the digital music revolution.