Which I might add is really strange, because it’s a fact that when Beato features a song in one of his videos, it definitely results in people going and downloading the songs, you would think bands would beg Rick to feature their songs in his videos.
Yeah, he's talked about that. It is almost entirely the old, established bands that screw with him. The newer ones get it. The most surprising group that has become real assholes about youtube is the Grateful Dead. I mean, they used to tell people, "steal this record".
I don't always agree with Beato about stuff, but he truly has changed how I listen to music, in a good way. He's also led me to some bands that I'd never heard before, and now own several albums of.