Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes

drcagn writes "Gene Simmons has blasted 'college' kids and claims that they have destroyed the music industry, with the labels also to blame for not properly suing them out of existence when they had the chance. When asked about Radiohead and Trent Reznor's recent support of a different direction in music distribution, he says "that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say 'Come on in and pay whatever you want.' Are you on f---ing crack?" When asked about music being free and making money off of merchandise, he says, "The most important part is the music. Without that, why would you care?" even though earlier in the interview he brags that he believes that KISS's merchandise is more profitable than Elvis's or the Beatles.'"

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Re:Well, he's over 40.

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot to add inHannity to that list.

Re:Krispy Kreme and ol' Gene

[Anonymous Coward]

Slavery is good. It is what gave the Roman world its fantastic standard of living.

Re:Capitals?

[monxrtr]

A great universal healthcare system would reward hospitals who successfully improve efficiency without impacting quality, but and acceptable universal healthcare system will not worsen efficiency and provide affordable healthcare to poorer americans, What a bunch of bull shit. Government interference in the health care market screwing things up is used as an excuse for total socialist control of peoples' health care choices.

Government "management" (violently enforced) doesn't lead to "efficiency" or "quality".

You fucks have brought about the situation where lawyers make more than doctors for much less work. Guess those babyboomers will be hiring lawyers on nurses to operate on them as they age, as that's where the factory degrees are being mass produced churned out.

Universal healthcare, or health insurance in general isn't about making healthcare cheaper, but rather about making the people with Jaguars subsidize the inherently high cost of healthcare for those with Kias. Exactly, you people are violent thugs. You uses the same propaganda words the Nazi socialists used to disguise their violence. "Management", "Subsidize", etc. Health care costs are high because there aren't any restraints on spending, over 10 million illegal aliens flood emergency rooms for free health care. The solution is to get government out of health care, and let markets work.