"The record industry is in such a mess. I called for what it was when college kids first started download music for free -- that they were crooks. I told every record label I spoke with that they just lit the fuse to their own bomb that was going to explode from under them and put them on the street.
There is nothing in me that wants to go in there and do new music. How are you going to deliver it? How are you going to get paid for it if people can just get it for free? I will be putting out a Gene Simmons box set called "Monster" -- a collection of 150 unreleased songs. KISS will have another box set of unreleased music in the next year.
The record industry doesn't have a f---ing clue how to make money. It's only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there's no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. How can you pick on them? They've got freckles. That's a crook. He may as well be wearing a bandit's mask."
I would like to go back to the part where Gene would like to sue the pants off of every college student that has ever downloaded free music and take their house and cars. Come back to reality Gene. No college kid I have ever met has owned their own house and car. Some are even lucky to have a car. And you are worried about making yourself richer?? While some college kids work all night and study all night long just to put themselves through school, you are just selling out and doing every single thing you can to make a penny. It is a sad day when you want to "sue every little college kid off the face of the earth". And it is one of those "freshly-scrubbed" faces along with Trent Reznor and Radiohead that will come up with a new music industry.
You really disgust me Gene Simmons. You are the epitome of a sell-out. Its all about the money to you...how sad. I will never listen to KISS again (not that I did anyways...)
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Here is another way to look at it:
If people download your music for free and pass it along to their friends, your music reaches more people. If your music reaches more people, then more people will go to see you perform live (i.e. you make money)
Then at your live show, you could sell your music to your fans or to people who want higher quality recordings.
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