The guitarist also criticized what he sees as entitled fan behavior in the current music landscape.
“Independent artists now have to navigate a Mad Max wasteland of survival and are the directed victims of massive ripoffs, reduced to beg and pander for likes and subscribes from self-entitled brats who want their work for free or for next to nothing,” Vincent said. “Yet these are the same whiners who have no problem paying someone $500 for a brick from a house he demolished or $1,000 for a sweaty pair of used socks. But you bitches cry and whine like fucking babies when VV sells something at a price you don’t like. Grow the fuck up! My price protects me from people like ‘you’ who will buy cheap from the theft of bootleggers.”
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lemmy users in shambles
I get there are rampant problems with the music industry, but “Fuck you poors, I only sell music to rich people now” doesn’t seem like a reasonable solution. Also the whole “don’t buy if you can’t afford it” thing seems disingenuous when you are limiting distribution to 500 copies in the US and 500 copies for the rest of the world. Even if someone could afford it and wanted to buy it, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t be allowed to cause … reasons, I guess.
Why don’t you just do private concerts or something.