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TMBG on DRM

Posted by michael on from the they-might-be-assaulted-by-the-boston-strangler dept.

scootr1 writes "John and John from They Might Be Giants speak to Newsweek about, amongst other things, digital rights management. My favorite exchange? 'How would you eat, then?' 'That's my problem.' When are record companies going to realize that DRM isn't going to help them sell more of the bad music that dominates the airwaves?"

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  1. Re:Eat food? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're a hate group.

    So is the Bush cabinet.

  2. Re:Eat food? by goldspider · · Score: 0, Troll
    They hate President Bush and they hate Vice President Cheney.

    Of course they don't come out and say that, but then the KKK doesn't publicly state that they hate black people either. But anyone with half a brain can see the true motivation behind their message.

    Can you honestly say with a straight face that MoveOn.org isn't motivated by their hatred of Bush?

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    "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
  3. bad music . . . dominates the airwaves by mosb1000 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh please, just because you want to torture yourself by listening to TMBG doesn't mean that the rest of us want to. I really dislike the argument that independent artists make better music. It's true that they make more attempts at being creative than big label artists, but most people don't want to listen to music that creative or experimental. They want to listen to music that sounds good, and that's what the big labels produce. I mean, TMBG is funny, but I wouldn't want to listen to more than 5 minutes of it in a day, much less a whole album. DRM is pretty stupid though.