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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. 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.