Anthraxin Scott Ian lyttää Spotifyn ja Pandoran tuoreessa haastattelussa

Yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metalin legendan Anthraxin kitaristi Scott Ian on antanut hiljattain haastattelun From Hero To Zero -nimiselle verkkolehdelle, jossa mies on kritisoinut kovasti Spotifyn sekä Pandoran maksamia pieniä korvauksia artisteille. Voit lukea Scott Ianin mietteitä aiheen tiimoilta tästä: 

”You make some money. Obviously, as an artist, I feel like we should be being paid more for our streams. I think what streaming and many other types of ways to get music these days… Basically, what it’s done is just really devalued music. Music doesn’t have the same value in people’s minds on this planet as it did ten years ago, twenty years ago… It’s just been really devalued. The commodity of music is worth less these days. Albums couldn’t be cheaper. You could buy a brand new album, let’s say on iTunes, you could buy a brand new CD for ten dollars. I mean, it wasn’t that long ago where you had to go to, let’s say, Virgin Megastore, which used to be everywhere. Albums back then in the States, a brand new CD would cost you at least seventeen dollars. That’s not even including the gas to get there in your car, paying for parking sometimes. Now you could just sit at home and pay ten dollars. It’s never been cheaper, and people still have a problem with that, apparently, because they’d rather steal it or stream it. Now, look, I get streaming — it’s a modern convenience, it’s the next step of where things are going, as far as how to get your music, and I don’t have a problem with that. Look, I was one of the first people to get an iPod. I love iTunes, I love having all my shit right here in my phone; I love the convenience of that. I even like streaming, because it will turn me on to music that maybe I wouldn’t have heard before and then I’ll go and buy the record. But I just feel like, once again, bands are getting ripped off by these streaming services. If Spotify would pay more money to the bands for the art they’re creating, I think just in general people would have a better view of music and think it was worth more. Music should be worth something. It is worth something. We’re creating art, and these businesses have completely devalued what we do, and obviously I think that’s bullshit.”