Hair Brain: Ray Hair of AFM? BMI? ASCAP? RIAA? ASSHOLE?

If musicians weren't full of drugs, they wouldn't be giving a sappy grin over a notice sent out by Ray Hair of AFM.

WHAT, the FUCK, you are asking, is AFM?

It's just another sticky bit of goop in the alphabet soup.

If you're a singer or songwriter you could belong to a fucking truckload of unions, and all of them TAKE from you, and give you a small percentage of a very small amount.

Radio play? Oh, that's controlled by ASCAP or BMI. How about records? Oh, that's RIAA. Well what about NARM? What about AFM? What about...

If you visit these offices, you'll find a lot of employees doing very little, and most everyone taking a long lunch. And I haven't even gone into the fucking groups that have decided THEY control podcasts, Internet downloads, mp3 rights, ringtones, etc.

Ask ANY of 'em to do something about piracy and they pass the buck. "No, no, if it's recorded music, it's the RIAA." "No, it's not the RIAA on THAT because it's a bootleg of a concert. RIAA doesn't handle that. It's the song publishers who own the rights. That's ASCAP." "Hell no it's not, ASCAP checks royalties on juke boxes and radio play." "Ah, but you don't get money on radio play if you're the performer, just the songwriter. Or is it the other way around?"

Fact is, any of them could file a DMCA and say, "My client did NOT authorize a free download, or a free stream, or a free GooTube," but they DON'T.

And all this fucking Ray Hair is doing is passing the buck. As in, "I told my membership to "click here to tell your legislator to support the Fair Play Fair Pay Act."

Yeah? Why isn't HE uniting with RIAA, ASCAP, BMI, AFTRA, SAG, and everyone else to push it through? And why did it take Taylor Swift to do what this guy couldn't?

And how much money IS this fucking Ray Hair taking away from the musicians as the head of this useless group?