>>130331015
i'm sorry mr bukowski

>>130331015
pretty sure he could just sell another basquiat

>>130331015
survive = paying the bills for several mansions

>>130331015
I thought that was Wayne Lambright for a moment

There's nothing more metal than taking out a bunch of pip-squeaking computer nerds and corporate giant napster.

>>130331224
they had a culture of allowing mixtapes and providing all their lives shows for free, they didn't care about the money
they didn't want retarded nerds napster turning into a profitable business on account of piracy, it's no different from AI companies like suno pillaging recorded music to increase the quality of their LLMs and boost their stock price

>>130331015
Metallica survive? They're perma-rich, retard.

>>130331015
Based.

>>130332352
>what are second order effects
Its not about Lars or Metallica, the point is he was ultimately right about Napster.

>>130331741
Yeah and the Dead provided a whole way to live with it and not be assholes, then there was this faggot.

>>130332713
I guess phish just lost their whole income to tapers too right?

>>130331015
how about they get a job?

>>130331015
Major artists are by and large industry plants, who exist to generate returns for the labels that developed them. The label wants to produce the biggest return possible, so they release 50 different limited deluxe versions of each album, they send their artists on lengthy world tours, and they produce huge amounts of merchandise at such a low startup cost and such a high sticker price that it doesn't even matter if most of it fails to sell

>>130331015
good?

>>130331015
I'm sure they make plenty from Walmart t shirt sales