{"id":483,"date":"2011-01-11T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/11\/taylor-defends-illegal-downloaders\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T21:10:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:10:32","slug":"taylor-defends-illegal-downloaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/01\/11\/taylor-defends-illegal-downloaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor defends illegal downloaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f8\/Corey_Taylor.jpg\/175px-Corey_Taylor.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"138\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Slipknot star Corey Taylor has defended fans who illegally download songs from the internet, insisting no one wants to pay for \u201cgarbage\u201d modern music.<\/p>\n<p>The record industry has been hit hard by illicit file-sharing, but rocker Taylor is convinced the practice is a response to bad music churned out by current chart-toppers.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s adamant listeners would pay for albums if the tracks were of a decent quality.<\/p>\n<p>He tells Britain\u2019s Kerrang! magazine, \u201cI have a completely different take on this from a lot of other people. A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of (the music business), but I think that if most music wasn\u2019t s**t to begin with people wouldn\u2019t be downloading this stuff for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously, who the f**k wants to risk hard-earned money on music that\u2019s maybe 98 per cent c**p? I\u2019m not going to. And I still buy new albums. People ask what my favourite new album is and nine times out of 10, I don\u2019t f**king have one. Music is garbage.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Industry Report<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slipknot star Corey Taylor has defended fans who illegally download songs from the internet, insisting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}