Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5?

News.com ^ | 1/10/2008 | Greg Sandoval

[stainlessbanner]

Rezner: head like a hole

[mysterio]

I paid for my downloads of The Plant.

[weegee]

Rock & Roll PING

"I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'" --Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

Corporate welfare. Pay your entertainer tax. Those who have the right politics will see a cut, those who don't march in step will have to fend for themselves.

[Red in Blue PA]

Exactly.

[mnehring]

If memory serves me correctly, it was either Reznor or Manson that was a Republican. Of course, for those who only read that pull quote and not full interview, they would think he was really calling for a tax and not smarting off about people complaining about being asked to pay for the download.

[jack_napier]

It’s not even a NIN album. It’s some other guy he produced. I liked Day Zero, but I felt it was 1) too preachy, 2) It didn’t *stick* in my head like With Teeth did.

[mnehring]

Weegee, ping them to read the article, he was making a smart a** comment about people complaining they were asked to pay. The snip above is an inaccurate representation.

[swain_forkbeard]

Hammer meets nailhead. For a while, I’ve been thinking that about $0.10 per minute would be an attractive price point for lossless downloads.

[mrsmel]

Somehow that makes me LOL. If only people could do this to the news media and shut them down if they can’t offer real news instead of biased opinion, lies, or infotainment junk. I know that we have the internet, but most of the blogs, etc, are still based on stories from the MSM. It’s still not usually direct from the source of the news.

[najida]

Manson is a good ole Republican, Episcopalian boy from Canton, Ohio.

A lot of what he does is for $$$.

[mnehring]

He is this generation’s Alice Cooper.

[toddlintown]

People are mooches. It’s that simple.

Publish a book and see how many “reviewers” come out of the woodwork asking for a Media copy.

[najida]

‘zactly!

[Sam's Army]

"I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'" --Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

Yeah, like any tax like that would only be $5.

Hey Trent, ever hear of the free market? Oh, that's right--you have and you didn't like what it had to say about your product; so now you want us all taxed instead.

[weegee]

Rick Rubin presented tracks to Johnny Cash to select what he’d cover. I don’t think that Johnny Cash had a stash of NIN albums he bought at the local music store.

[Lady Jag]

clickit!

[Antoninus]

I'm amazed that 28,000 people could be duped into parting with $5 for any "music" by this low-life.

That said, I think record labels are headed the way of the dinosaurs.

[weegee]

There are plenty of musicians pushing for an internet tax and in Canada it is close to becoming a reality.

This is more than hypothetical talk. He’s selling the policy.

I don’t buy that Brian Warner “Manson” is a “Republican”. He tears up bibles at concerts and mocked it as a work of fiction on Politically (in)Correct. It may “all” be his stage persona but the heavy coke use is his personal life (two famous women who’ve tried to make him quit “the party” have been kicked to the curb by Brian).

He’s a “Republican” in the same way that Bill Maher is a “Libertarian”. It is talk.

Alice Cooper IS a conservative Republican who plays golf and lives clean.

[SoDak]

People listening to NIN don’t give two hoots about a difference in sound quality.

[Spktyr]

Actually, Johnny is on record as saying he liked some of Reznor’s work as a fellow songwriter.