That doesn't count. You can't pick on one person as an exception. And that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say "Come on in and pay whatever you want." Are you on f*cking crack? Do you really believe that's a business model that works?
As for any new Kiss records, don'''t hold your breath. He had quite a bit more to say on the subject:
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?
Even freckled-face college kids cannot escape this gentleman'''s ire, particularly when it comes to illegal music downloads:
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.
Simmons will be putting out a box set called "Monster" which is will be a collection of 150 unreleased songs and KISS will have another box set of unreleased music in the next year. Just don'''t try and download it for free or he will have your freshly-scrubbed hide. [Billboard]
MITCHELLThis post sounds familiar. I had this episode with free music downloads recently.