John Mellencamp Compares the Web to the Atomic Bomb

What is destroying the music business is greedy performers and lawyers, and talentless hacks like Mellencamp.

I have heard other comments about the sound quality on the iPod, are people really so dim as to be ignorant of sound quality? I suspect the answer is 'yes'.

Still huffing after all these years, eh?

Poor, poor baby!

Now STFU and climb back under that slimy rock...

There was a time when a musician, who wanted to earn a living, had to play live.

Ya know, work every day like plumbers, carpenters, doctors, policeman, etc.

Then technology intervened and allowed them to save thier work and redistrubuted it freely with little or no cost.

SO they could ya know, not have to work every day like plumbers, carpenters, doctors, policemen, etc.

Well technology has intervened again, and this time it is to take away the free ride of saving your work.

No more free ride for musicians.

If you want to get paid then go to work the like the rest of us.

Also, if you could do it without whining, Ya know like plumbers, carpenters, doctors, policemen, etc. that would be cool too.

His bitterness obviously is because the internet 'changed the music business'? While I understand that he, and others, have probably lost revenue due to the internet, is there some good reason why he can't move into the future and use the idea 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' so he doesn't get left behind? We move towards digitizing everything, take the good with the bad, and he should to. Problem is he's a leftie and very likely has only a limited understanding of business in general. He's like Springsteen to me, grasping & clinging to some failed ideas, all so they can praise Obama and his ilk and look like heros to a lot of our youth who are enamoured with the marxists and 'ism' practitioners in government. Both of them Cougar and the 'boss'- are fooling themselves, thinking that people want them to voice their opinions about things like the internet, gov't,etc. But I believe their (now dreadfully shrinking) fan base would rather just hear their music. Maybe they recognize that old rockers need to somehow keep themselves controversial elsewise they fade into oblivion because they don't have the creative know how to keep coming up with music that attracts an audience. I say to both of them, retire before you humiliate yourselves even worse than you already have. As for me, I switch the channel whenever 'pink houses' comes on. It's dated, over played and irrelevant just like the guy that can't seem to quit singing it.

So basically because John doesn't like digital music quality, then the internet is the worst thing since the atomic bomb. Here's an idea John, instead of deciding for the billions of people who use the latest Revolution in humankind (the internet), why not just collect vinyl. I used to love Mellencamp's music, but his Marxism is turning me off.

get over yourself, "cougar".

I think Johnny boy just needs to go off somewhere and become the unknown that he has become. What a waist and a lie he has been for me and others who grew up listening to his music. I have gotten rid of all my CD's, " oh yell they were bad too" and refuse to listen to his music since the Charlie Rose interview. If you have not seen it look it up. He thinks World War II was a mistake in that we should have just talked our way out of it.
What a joke he has become.

So, let's recap; nuclear weapons = ability to destroy all life on earth many times over, internet = deflating mega million dollar incomes of entertainment elites back to levels relative to average incomes resembling the 1960's or so. Yes, definitely the same.

All that from a washed up one hit wonder to boot. I pity the folks who let celebrities color their opinions.