Iggy Pop: “If I Depended on Record Sales I’d Be Tending Bars”

Iggy Pop delivered the fourth annual John Peel Lecture for the BBC at Radio Festival 2014. Quotes from this speech were transcribed by The Guardian and The Independent. “I think people are just a little bit bored, and more than a little bit broke. No money. Especially simple working people who have been totally left out, screwed and abandoned. If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales I’d be tending bars between sets.” “There is a general atmosphere [in the music business] of resentment, pressure, kind of strange perpetual war, and I think prosecuting some college kid because she or he shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia a couple of hundred years ago for poaching his lordship’s rabbit. That’s how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free.”

Source: Digital Music News