{"id":4562,"date":"2014-08-21T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/alice-in-chains-drummer-calls-spotify-and-pandora-a-fking-ripoff-for-musicians\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:37:02","slug":"alice-in-chains-drummer-calls-spotify-and-pandora-a-fking-ripoff-for-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/alice-in-chains-drummer-calls-spotify-and-pandora-a-fking-ripoff-for-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice In Chains Drummer Calls Spotify and Pandora \u201cA F\u2013king Ripoff for Musicians\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


\u2026From a recent interview with Alice In Chains drummer Sean Kinney on classic rock station 96.5 The Fox\u2026
Interviewer: How does it make you feel that people can go cherry-pick songs? I mean you spend all this time crafting and writing and recording this album of songs, then people can go, \u2018Well I dig this one tune, I\u2019m going to buy this and that\u2019s it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sean Kinney:\u00a0 Well that\u2019s just the way it is, so I don\u2019t want to put any energy into that.\u00a0 That\u2019s just how it is, and you can do anything about that.<\/p>\n

But then you have these Spotifys and Pandoras where you get access to almost every piece of recorded music on the planet.
And then that\u2019s great for the consumer, but for every person who\u2019s ever recorded music it\u2019s a f\u2013king ripoff (oops I swore on the radio).<\/p>\n

Because, you know, people are starting to post their checks; you get 10 million plays of your song and you get a check for $111.\u00a0 It\u2019s a weird time we live in, it\u2019s a real balancing act.\u00a0 And, so basically, you\u2019d hope that you have an audience and you can tour, and try to break even or maybe make a little bit to make a living on tour.
But\u00a0 it costs a lot: gas prices aren\u2019t lower and instruments aren\u2019t lower, those things don\u2019t cost less.<\/p>\n

So, I really don\u2019t know how to deal with that, it is what it is.\u00a0 We just go about it doing what we want and playing music, and if it comes to a time when we can\u2019t afford to go to places \u2014 and we invest to go to places, and we\u2019re not leaving with a briefcase of dough.\u00a0 And when we can\u2019t do that, then we just won\u2019t be able to do it.<\/p>\n

Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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