Spotify? ALOE BLACC sees RED

SPOTIFY SUCKS. Just listen to Aloe Blacc.

He was on "Real Time with Bill Maher" sharing those uncomfortable truths about how fucked up the music industry is.

Yeah, and piracy and SPOTIFY don't help.

And if rappers and teen idols who are supposed to be making a fortune are complaining, imagine how shitty it is for that 70's rock group that barely manages a summer tour, and that 60's C&W singer who is literally in a rocking chair and can't "sell t-shirts" or barely talk, or the songwriter who thought he'd paid his dues for years of eating beans only to discover some Mephisto or Seniormole thinks he should STILL eat beans because mediocrity and jealousy — and the ability to give away music — trumps common sense.

Maher, who discovered all about piracy when he made his atheist documentary "Religulous," wasn't thrilled that he and his crew laid out all that money and didn't get much of a return because people have a "philosophy" about not paying. Yes, the "religion" of the day is the faith that movies make themselves, and artists of all types will just "keep that day job, ha ha ha" and be happy to have a "credit" or a little crumb of success to make for being ripped off by arrogant pea-brains.

ALOE BLACC:
"There's seven billion dollars missing from the music industry…" BILL MAHER:
"The songwriters are starving. They don't pay for songwriting anymore…" ALOE BLACC:
"The laws don't really protect songwriters…"Wake Me Up" -- on Pandora, for 168 million streams…we earned a little over $12,000 bucks." BILL MAHER:
"You're not the only one. "Happy" 43 million spins. He made $2700…the world is going to shit, but on the way, I want to listen to good music. I don't think they prize the songwriting anymore…This is why Taylor Swift got off Spotify. I applaud her for that. She said "I don't want to go along with this idea that we don't care what we get paid, we just want people to hear the music." It's easy to say after you've made it."
ALOE BLACC:
It's also about control. I wouldn't want Charles Manson to put out a version of "Wake Me Up." I should have control over who gets to sing that song, but the copyright law for songwriters doesn't allow that…as technology changes, so should the law…any Joe Shmoe can over all of Taylor Swift's songs and put them up on Spotify and she has no control…we don't want to be exploited."
BILL MAHER:
How much do you blame the consumer? There's a whole generation that believes music should be free. ALOE BLACC:
I don't think it should be necessarily free in terms of compensation. Everybody should be paying for what they consume. It's a product like anything else."
BILL MAHER:
It's a product that has more longevity than almost any other commodity that I can think of. I'm listening to songs that I bought 40 years ago, and they still give me pleasure. I can't think of anything else, besides my dick, that gave me pleasure 40 years ago.

It's human nature to rationalize. So it is, that the middle-class middle-aged Seniormole assholes shrug and say "It's a kerfuffle. They hurl their poo. They're doing all right. I expect to be paid for what I do, and don't tell me how much to charge, but THEM? They're having FUN. And they're all millionaires."

Then we have the happy pirates, who brattily insist they KNOW they steal and are proud of it. Except, they keep their doors and windows shut. They will call the cops of somebody takes something without asking. Or begging. They aren't shouting 'Vive Assange" when somebody hacks their computers and throws their private e-mails and photos all over the Net. They aren't smirking "copyright is copy WRONG" when it's their stuff...their photos, their blogs, their material that is getting circulated "with no money, and no credit."

The easiest thing in the world is to make excuses.

It wasn't bad enough years ago? It's even worse now. Fewer new artists are getting their stuff heard. Fewer are being taken seriously. Fewer are making a living at what they want to do. Eventually it catches up. How? Just as stores go under and people move away, artists give up and you're left with shitty comic book movies, crappy Bieber and Virus songs, miserable "reality" shows, and the Kardashians and Jenners 24/7 and no alternative to idiots like James Corden cheerleading mediocrity.

You'd really prefer growing up now, with free downloads of shit, than the way you did, treasuring books and records? Now you've got no alternative, because no matter what Aloe Blacc or anyone else says, unless GOOGLE and AMAZON and the other Fascist tyrants are forced to obey the laws, and unless ISPs and everyone else have to answer for what they're throwing all over the Internet, and unless there are strict penalties AND severe solutions for piracy, it'll just be MORE garbage not even worth stealing. The quality of life will go down even further, along with the ecology. There was a time when you bought and treasured The Beatles, the Stones, all the great artists who produced all kinds of music. Now you get what you don't pay for.