Another aging rocker desperately tries to sell new records, claims “internet is like an atomic bomb”. Also doesn’t know how to rip a song from a CD…

Oh geese. When will these washed up rockers realize that 20-30 years later in 2010, no one gives a damn about them. Case in point: John Mellencamp. Say what you will about his glory days, because they are long gone. Recently, ‘ol Johnny boy here made a simple, yet very telling statement:

“I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb”

Riiiiight. But it gets even better. He busts out the completely flawed statement building off the previous saying:

“It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.”

Sorry to break it to ya John, but the music industry destroyed the music industry. Dicking around with Napster back in the day instead of learning from the possibilities as well as taking a very hands off approach to anything digital early on is what set them up for failure. It is the music industries constant failures in giving consumers what they want that has led to their downfall. No amount of rigged “studdies”, press releases, or even blabbering washed up celebrities like you can change that.

With that said, sticking with the whole anti-digital rhetoric, Mellencamp dished out criticism on mp3 players/digital downloads, comparing remastered CDs and mp3 downloads as night and day differences. Specifically,

you could barely even recognize it as the same song. You could tell it was those guys singing, but the warmth and quality of what the artist intended for us to hear was so vastly different.

Yet again, a digital retard and backwards thinking has been is showing how ignorant he is. Here’s a hint John — it’s called FLAC. Google it.

Source:
Gizmodo
Reuters

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