Via Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE49C4BH20081013:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For those about to rock, AC/DC salutes you. Unless, that is, you want to buy the Australian heavy metal group’s newest album, “Black Ice,” on iTunes, or anywhere but Wal-Mart when it drops in record stores on October 20.
“Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful,” lead singer Brian Johnson, 61, told Reuters.
AC/DC, formed by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young in 1973, is among only a handful of musicians to refuse to put their music on the popular download website in a move that Johnson defended as a bid to protect the album format from the Internet’s emphasis on buying single songs.
Idiots.
Why are they idiots? Seems to me that they are asserting the rights over their property.
I thought Freepers were in favor of property rights.
Are you kidding? It's unAmerican to buy something you don't want to get something you do want. That'll kill music, definitely...
Yeah, how are we going to move all our crap songs if we can’t force you to buy them to get the few good ones?