It seems yet more artists are looking at cutting the media mafia out of their future plans.
http://torrentfreak.com/joss-stone-piracy-is-brilliant-080625/Joss Stone, who won a Grammy last year, loves music, but hates the the music industry. In a recent interview she said that - unlike herself - most artists are brainwashed by the industry, and she encouraged people to share her music.
After the show a reporter asked her what she thinks of piracy, and people who download her songs off the Internet. Her response baffled the reporter, as she simply told him: “I think it’s great…” There was an awkward silence for a few seconds, the reporter probably expected to hear something else from her. “Great?,” he said.
“Yeah, I love it. I think it’s brilliant and I’ll tell you why,” Stone continued. “Music should be shared. [...] The only part about music that I dislike is the business that is attached to it. Now, if music is free, then there is no business, there is just music. So, I like it, I think that we should share.”
“It’s ok, if one person buys it, it’s totally cool, burn it up, share it with your friends, I don’t care. I don’t care how you hear it as long as you hear it. As long as you come to my show, and have a great time listening to the live show it’s totally cool. I don’t mind. I’m happy that they hear it.”
What would be more useful for expanding on this concept of artists working for themselves would be third party distributors who work for all the artists for a small percentage, this would signal the death of the fat cats and their democracy undermining activities, lets be honest selfishness has been the glue holding the recording industry together against the consumer and artist, lets us hope other artists speak up so we can make the right decisions when it comes to concert/festival time.
