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Musicians Get Together For Anti-RIAA Concerts
DarkZero writes "The Sacramento Bee is currently running an article
about several different bands getting together for five concerts to raise money for the Recording Artists Coalition with the express purpose of fighting the RIAA and the
unfair treatment of its musicians. The acts lined up include Elton John, Billy Joel, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nick
s, The Offspring, The Eagles, Weezer, and plenty of other bands. Good for them. (And for those that are wonderi
ng, the RAC's site, ArtistsAgainstPiracy.com, is actually an anti-RIAA and somewhat pro-Napster site, not what you would immediately expect it
to be.)"
I don't agree at all with what this guy's saying, but why the hell was he mod'ed down? I think this reflects what a lot of people think... (and IMHO it isn't a troll or anything)
And the reason I don't agree the biggest problem is exactly that the RIAA has established itself in a position where the control all the media, so artists have to go to them if they want to have any chance to be heard.
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I knew the lead singer of Weezer (Rivers Cuomo) when he was in high school. Back then he was in a Big Hair garage band (uh, like Poison or Ratt), and he had this wacky long pop-rock hairstyle.
He must have been real popular with the ladies, becaue I borrowed his car once and there were about three used condoms lying in the footwell on the passenger side.
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The artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as 'Prince'" doesn't seem to do too many benefits, or any for that matter. He didn't do "We Are the World." For those under the age of fifteen, that was a benefit for starving Ethiopia back when they were at war and Somalia had plenty of food. After Somalia went to war and then didn't have any food, people figured out that there wasn't much point in having this kind of benefit.