Comments on: Flea muses on leaked RHCP album

Flea muses on leaked RHCP album

sjvilla79 — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:27:11 -0800

MusicFilter: You supposedly can't buy it yet. Well, you actually can get it other ways. Flea isn't that pleased about it either.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:32:33 -0800

if you down load it now off one of these file sharing sites you will be getting a pale imitation of the record it will be of the poor sound quality of the technique they used to get it on there and that will break my heart it will break john frusciante's heart it will break anthony kiedis's heart and it will break the heart of chad smith That's just really touching, isn't it? What a wanker.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:36:09 -0800

Why does he write like a twelve year old who has been victim of a closed head injury?

By: jonson

jonson — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:36:12 -0800

no shit, I don't think I've ever liked Flea less, he just comes off as such a complete pantywaist here. Embarassing.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:43:20 -0800

Of course, he could be a genius playing his fans like a tin flute. Leak the album then tell the world it's out there in order to generate interest that would not otherwise be there. I mean why else draw attention to it? No one, as far as I can find, was talking about it before he posted this letter to his public.

By: dvdgee

dvdgee — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:45:32 -0800

if he's so concerned about the sound quality, why is it available for pre-order from iTunes' (in crappy AAC format, no doubt)?

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:47:38 -0800

Say, that reminds me ...

By: Swervo

Swervo — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:48:24 -0800

I can't stand anything the RHCP have done since Mother's Milk, but that aside... Flea is one of those musicians that I'd expect to be happy that his labor of love, as he seems to believe it is, would get out to masses of people who might not buy it otherwise. If his only true concern is that the sound quality isn't up to snuff, then let him counteract that by posting up straight, non-compressed CD rips on his own blog. That'd cure that problem nice and quick. I totally understand that he, and the rest of the band, want to make money off their work. There's a reason that I buy every CD I like now, I want to support the creation of more of their music. I can't say that I did the same during college when I had no money, but now that I do have disposable income, I buy every album I like. What I'm really disappointed by is that he's hiding that behind this tirade that these people suffer with a lower quality version of their work. Flea, either come out and say "We worked hard, and we want to be compensated" or put up straight CD rips on your site. Otherwise, you're just being a twit.

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:49:42 -0800

if you download this album i will cut myself.

By: furtive

furtive — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:51:10 -0800

The free publicity is breaking furtive's heart.

By: merlinmann

merlinmann — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:02:04 -0800

"Please don't throw me in that briar patch."

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:02:32 -0800

Confidential to Flea: Yeah. Your music's going to leak. No matter what. Seriously. Even if you manage to keep it from leaking in advance, it will go up the moment your record comes out. Even if you only ever sold it via iTMS, and I suggest you try to make the free advertising work for you, make it draw more people to your records and your concerts instead of asking people not to break your little ol' heart. I'm not saying you're in the wrong here, but writing short, sad sentences about your heart won't help at all. As you can see, it's made rather a lot of people make fun of you (see this thread, or the one on stereogum) While the Internet might steal some of your lemons, you can still make plenty of lemondate out of the way things work right now. Particularly when you don't have to worry as much about building an audience from nothing, getting radio to pay attention to you, etc., etc. RHCP, regardless of whether or not I like them, is still a very popular band. This leak won't hurt you (except, I suppose, in your little ol' heart).

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:04:09 -0800

The sentence left dangling should've been: "... , and there's nothing you can do about it." I love hitting post when I mean to hit preview.

By: dsword

dsword — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:04:43 -0800

Flea, either come out and say "We worked hard, and we want to be compensated"... Or, how about, "We did a small fraction of the work that the vast majority of people do, and we want the millions that are coming to us"? Fuck Flea.

By: Matt Oneiros

Matt Oneiros — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:04:44 -0800

I rip good music to FLAC. Needless to say, I am not feeling this is good.

By: Ohdemah

Ohdemah — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:05:08 -0800

Flea: but, equitable business reasons aside the thing that really bums me out is... They should change their name to Equitable Bums.

By: ori

ori — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:05:38 -0800

Flea's Livejournal Current Mood: sad

By: drpynchon

drpynchon — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:11:29 -0800

Boo hoo. Don't worry Flea, the sound quality on the advance release is probably quite good. And if not, the lossless retail releases that'll be floating around soon enough will totally not break your heart. But I understand where you're coming from. I'm sure you'll need every penny you can get when that major labor of yours is sucking out over 90 cents on every dollar your record sells so that it can pump it into bullshit overhead fees, overproduction costs, and marketing. Fortunately the majority of geezers getting wet over your record probably think torrents are for weathermen. Love you, kthxbye, dr. p.

By: timing

timing — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:18:37 -0800

They won't hurt us, Donny. These men are cowards.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:19:58 -0800

"it will be of the poor sound quality of the technique they used to get it on there" Like the CD quality rips on the Russian sites rather than Steve Jobs's rips?

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:20:38 -0800

Is there any way to say "Hey, please don't download our album without paying for it" that wouldn't piss off people who read the internet? It seems that everytime someone finds out their album has leaked, and then has the courtesy to just *ask* their fans not to download the leak, the downloaders start ragging on the person for 1) the way that they asked (too mean, too bitchy, too litigatey), 2) being rich, 3) not being savvy enough to share the anecdotal opinion that downloading is 100% positive in all cases for ever and ever infinity plus one. Dude makes an album and then semi-illiterately asks people not to download it. How dare he. Let's hate him forever.

By: ikalliom

ikalliom — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:20:43 -0800

This is really rather strange, as my local newspaper offers the whole album for previewing (crap quality WMA format). Legally. No wonder it "leaked".

By: thanatogenous

thanatogenous — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:25:58 -0800

timing wins.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:27:39 -0800

after reading this thread I queued it up in emule there were hundreds of sources, and it started downloading then I remembered I do not like the music of the red hot chili peppers nice try, the red hot chili peppers

By: TimTypeZed

TimTypeZed — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:42:26 -0800

It amuses me to see rock musicians who have been trading forever on postures of indulgence and rebellion grasp more righteously than a spinster librarian onto ideals of civility and propriety when they start to notice that those thieving kids may not be giving them the respect they're certain they deserve.

By: Meccabilly

Meccabilly — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:47:49 -0800

We all know downloading music is a 'bad thing', so having Mr Flea tell us so kind of comes across a bit patronising. The poor sound quality sounds fair enough, but i imagine it will only encourage people to listen to the tracks out of curiosity. And anyway, these guys are in a really fortunate position to be able to make the music they love and to get it out there to the masses - they should stop the complaining and leave piracy issues to the record labels - that's what they're paid for...

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:53:29 -0800

Thousands! Did you read? Thousands have already listened to this album. That's like most of the world, or something.

By: keswick

keswick — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:59:55 -0800

this emoticon is for flea:

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:35:48 -0800

Mmmmm, smells like lame viral marketing to me. Pass. And please add my name to the long list of people that think Flea is a twit.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:59:36 -0800

I am so naming my band "It Will Break Flea's Heart"

By: Parannoyed

Parannoyed — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:07:48 -0800

okay, seriously. Since when is somebody considered an asshole for simply asking people not to steal from him? Yes, the man can't put a sentence together to save his goddamn life. Yes, he's rich and probably won't be hurt by this album being stolen. But I'm not gonna rip on the guy just because he wants to make money off his hard work.

By: unmake

unmake — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:13:35 -0800

"28 songs to break the heart of chad smith"

By: weston

weston — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:36:40 -0800

Giveitaway, giveitaway, giveitaway, now...

By: weston

weston — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:44:42 -0800

(Seriously, I kindof agree with Parannoyed. Yeah, Flea's plea may not be English literature, but hey, "Please buy our work" is a far sight better than "we're going to sue your pattootie off" and a perfectly fair sentiment, even if we'd rather he realized he "don't wanna be a miser.")

By: darkstar

darkstar — Fri, 05 May 2006 03:07:08 -0800

But I'm not gonna rip on the guy just because he wants to make money off his hard work. That's right - there are so many other good reasons...

By: RubberHen

RubberHen — Fri, 05 May 2006 03:17:22 -0800

I agree with so many of the posts here saw this in the NG simple REQ. Flea all your hard work and that letter can be boiled down to this Subject: REQ: Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium From: person < @yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rock.full-album TIA!!!!

By: eustacescrubb

eustacescrubb — Fri, 05 May 2006 03:29:24 -0800

Why is he going on and on about "poor sound quality"? Is he one of those vinyl snobs or something? Or is the album being uploaded as 128k mp3s? Or has Flea not heard an mp3 since 1999?

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:11:58 -0800

Great to know there is now an easy, free and effective way to piss off the members of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and make them cry over the internet. Pass me that torrent..

By: RubberHen

RubberHen — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:23:03 -0800

"Why is he going on and on about "poor sound quality"? Is he one of those vinyl snobs or something? Or is the album being uploaded as 128k mp3s? Or has Flea not heard an mp3 since 1999?"

I just looked throught the Newsgroups - and there are mp3s of live versions of these new songs, demo versions. I must assume that is what he was complaining about, for it was posted a coupla hundred lines before the massive [proper retail] posting

By: Remy

Remy — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:35:03 -0800

I fully expect Flea to do a collaboration with the other great lower case poet of our times. i have become the fatty police my new jeans r tight elastic waists cause obesity i just watched oprah made me want to eat salmon and swear off soda which i have tried b4 i know i must

By: runkelfinker

runkelfinker — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:53:13 -0800

I saw an interview with Flea on TV the other day - he seems like a really nasty piece of work...

By: melt away

melt away — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:57:34 -0800

Interesting responses.

By: rinkjustice

rinkjustice — Fri, 05 May 2006 05:17:03 -0800

Flea goes on and on about how the band toiled on the album, losing sleep over it, making sure everything sounded right from top to bottom - and it'll all be wasted because the album got leaked early and he potentially lost sales (which is debateable). Isn't the measure of a good album how critics and fans recieve it? I know album sales is a metric of success, but it's not the only thing (like Flea is suggesting).

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Fri, 05 May 2006 05:36:07 -0800

But I'm not gonna rip on the guy just because he wants to make money off his hard work. posted by Parannoyed at 4:07 AM EST on May 5 [!] He will make money off it. Most likely buckets and buckets of money. Leaked albums didn't prevent millions of dollars of sales for other mainstream popular bands.

By: blag

blag — Fri, 05 May 2006 05:43:20 -0800

RHCP were very anti-electronic-distribution for a long time. They were one of the last big groups to sign up for iTunes since it was "contributing to the death of the album format" or somesuch bullshit.

By: p3on

p3on — Fri, 05 May 2006 05:48:48 -0800

Flea says it's "poor sound quality version". That's funny, all I see on OiNK is a FLAC version and 320kb mp3 version.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:24:52 -0800

there was a little spammish flea a record star he thought he'd be

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:28:55 -0800

Has any non-gigantic, non-rich band ever had this sort of public struggle with ripping? Or is the very notion of this sort of tragedy tied inextricably to that tiny fraction of working musicians who are super high-profile and totally in bed with the major label machine? I have less sympathy for anyone who could have retired off the cash their first major label success pulled in than I have for, you know, anyone else in music.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:35:57 -0800

okay, seriously. Since when is somebody considered an asshole for simply asking people not to steal from him? Blah blah. Downloading the album is not stealing from him. He should be happy that people are listening to it. Internet availability didn't hurt The Arctic Monkeys, did it? As someone said in the stereogum thread, people who bitch about their albums leaking aren't making albums worth buying.

By: Devils Slide

Devils Slide — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:38:23 -0800

Hey, Flea's right. Anthony Kiedis needs the money to fix his teeth. The Chili Peppers would have been ok if they had a decent singer. Kiedis has a terrible voice, no range, his lyrics are stupid, he looks scary, and his stage moves are nothing to write home about either. I won't even get into his acting "skills".

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:39:00 -0800

Come up with a decent distribution plan that doesn't involve RIAA record companies. Then maybe I won't download your crappy music. Or maybe I still will. If it breaks your heart don't make any more records. It's crapifornication.

By: bullitt 5

bullitt 5 — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:50:48 -0800

Downloading the album is not stealing from him. This doesn't make any sense to me. Surely Flea has some stake (however fractional) in the purchase of each cd of his album. Someone who downloads the album gets the pleasure of listening to it without purchasing it. I think if you look past the rationale about sound quality you see someone who has put his deepest effort into preparing this album, and is now distressed at seeing it leaked. Saying their music isn't any good isn't a good rationale either -- if you think their music sucks don't download it. Reading the mental gymnastics people engage in to justify downloading just baffles me. I think at core it is stealing, but people layer on all these bogus rationales (the band isn't that good, the system is corrupt) to cover up the fact that you are taking someone's creative output, without paying for it. There's this bizarre attitude in the online community of "we have the ability to do this, and we're going to do it, no matter what you think." Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. If you really love the music, you should pay for it, even if the artist isn't poor. If you don't care for/about the music, then find something you do care about and listen to that. /rant

By: crowman

crowman — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:54:04 -0800

I wonder how many cassette tapes Flea swapped back in the day? "Can I tape this James Brown record you got here? I'll tape some stuff for you too man..." I bet he didn't even know he was breaking the heart of the Godfather of Soul.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Fri, 05 May 2006 06:59:35 -0800

All things being equal, "Storm In A Teacup" is a damn fine track.

By: BlueWolf

BlueWolf — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:00:58 -0800

Swervo, it is unlikely that Flea would be allowed to release any version of this album or others "on his own". Technically it's the record company's album; they get to decide how it's distributed. In the same vein, I doubt he had any choice in the song being released on itunes. More than that though, would you distribute your album to the ungreatful masses for free and losslessly compressed after you had worked on it for a year? I seriously doubt it. However, I know that if given the chance I would release recordings of my concerts in just such a manner. Also, it seems that Flea is only disappointed in, not angry with, the fans that would download this without buying it, and is more upset with the person that leaked the album in the first place. Rightly so. Whoever leaked the album really was stealing, no bones about it. By the way the last couple RHCP albums really disappointed me; I hope this one doesn't. Ironic that RHCP has not been the same since they sobered up.

By: funambulist

funambulist — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:09:26 -0800

we worked very hard at uploading the advance copy in flac version and 320kb mp3 version we spent so much time adjusting the lame settings to make it sound perfect and faithful to the original. we spread it around on the internet all for free we didn't even get paid by the marketing department labels would kill for this kind of free promotion not that the red hot chilli peppers need it you know but it never hurts. and now flea is not appreciating our effort and that is breaking our heart. we're very sensitive people. please, flea, stop. sincerely, the uploaders /channelling

By: funambulist

funambulist — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:16:06 -0800

the ungreatful masses Would that be the same ungreateful (eh, was that a typo or deliberate?) masses that have been sending every single RHCP release to the top of the charts worldwide and buying tickets for their big stadium shows and making them so rich and popular a brand name that by now no matter what crap they release they can still count on making a few millions from each new album and tour? That's a new definition of ungratefulness.

By: zog

zog — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:20:08 -0800

I wonder if the comments on "sound quality" has anything to do with the gripes and even petitions they got about the woeful sound quality on some of their previous work.

By: danb

danb — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:29:37 -0800

: Hey, I came out with a new CD. I'd appreciate if you bought it and didn't download it for free off the internet. :: Haha, NOPE!

By: blacklite

blacklite — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:52:10 -0800

Every album gets leaked. Whether it's on purpose or not. Life goes on. It's not like we won't all be able to hear every single track on the radio in a week anyway.

By: cows of industry

cows of industry — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:52:23 -0800

and i know that, as sensitive as john frusciante is about sound the idea of anyone getting and hearing this thing that way will devastate him for people to not hear the work the way we meant it to be will really hurt him deep inside and all of us will hurt Hey Pallie, everybody hurts. Didn't you listen to Michael Stipe?

By: interrobang

interrobang — Fri, 05 May 2006 08:10:00 -0800

Of course if you download it it's not going to be of poor quality. He's trying to write in a way that appeals to the mentality of his listeners. He's like that guy in "Dazed and Confused": That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

By: erebora

erebora — Fri, 05 May 2006 08:14:43 -0800

After threads like this, I hate Metafilter.

By: stevil

stevil — Fri, 05 May 2006 08:28:01 -0800

I saw the RCHP live a few years back, and Duck Dunn was playing bass for 'em.

By: jbelshaw

jbelshaw — Fri, 05 May 2006 09:09:37 -0800

meh, the new Tool cd that was released Tuesday was leaked a week or two before the release date. It'll most likely debut at #1 this week. Maybe if your music hasn't sucked for the past 15 years, you'd sell more.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Fri, 05 May 2006 09:29:59 -0800

AAAHHHHH I LOVE YOU FLEA *girly scream* *sound of hair being pulled* *cry* ! You're such a Poet !

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AAAAAAHHHHH Unicorn, Porn, he's so fucking a boingboing chaser of a man Pepsi Blue ! Yet he's so sensible and touchy feely ! I will go buy the goddamn album if he wants me to ! __________________ AAAAHHHH YOU SCUMBAG ! What a sissy ! Cry me a river you multimillionare gold dick waging, ass tastic , illiterate idiot that can barely spell therefore pushing my righteous indignation and my envy to a limit never ever felt before by any human being ! I went to college yet I earn a fraction of you , you just making another fucking justaposition of words like there isn't a zillion already, shake dat booty all the bitches go insane AAAHHH I hate you more then Fiddy ! YES ! I will download your fucking album and pirate it to the end of universe and let everybody listen to that PREEEECIOUS song of yours you asstard ! Hollywood agent ? Fuggetabout it I will take it personally and let everybody know about your silly band ! I will spend the rest of my life making a whole lot of noise about you !

By: hoverboards don't work on water

hoverboards don't work on water — Fri, 05 May 2006 09:54:40 -0800

Download it? But what if the Jitz is monitoring?!

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:00:09 -0800

Reading the mental gymnastics people engage in to justify downloading just baffles me. I think at core it is stealing, but people layer on all these bogus rationales (the band isn't that good, the system is corrupt) to cover up the fact that you are taking someone's creative output, without paying for it. Your rant is totally misguided. First of all, I didn't download the album. I don't think everyone in this thread is trying to say that they downloaded the album. What everyone seems to be saying that Flea sounds like a clueless wanker here. And that coincidentally, RHCP sucks. It's not like 1) They suck, so 2) I can morally download their album. Those are independent premises. Also, it's not stealing. If I go into Flea's house and take his computer, that's stealing. Now he can't type whiny screeds on his blog anymore. If I download the album, I haven't taken it away from him or anyone who wants to buy it. If I did download it, which I'm sure I'm not going to, and I enjoyed it, I would buy it.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:03:20 -0800

Insert an "is" in there, please.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:22:33 -0800

♪♫ Oh, bay-bay, just for you, I'd steal anaything that want me too. ♪♫

By: rockabilly_pete

rockabilly_pete — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:04:59 -0800

I have no idea about the difference in sound quality between the CD copy and the leaked download, so I don't really know if Flea's complaint is valid or not. Is it wrong to steal music? It seems like Flea really doesn't care what you think about that. I'm inclined to take what he says at face value: if I had worked on anything for a year and a half and was really proud of my work, I'd be miffed if people totally disrespected me and treated me like a chump. That seems to be exactly what people are doing.

By: 2sheets

2sheets — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:19:18 -0800

Lemme tell ya how this works, sonny. Your band has sucked hard for a long time. The last time I bought anything from you I regretted it. Since I have some fond memories from my youth of your early recordings and shows I might be tempted to check out your new stuff if I can listen to it for free, but I admit that I would probably just skip through each song after 20 seconds and end up deleting it within a 1/2 hour after downloading it. But now that I see that you're just a whiny-ass titty baby, I'm kind of embarrassed for you and I'd just as soon we put the whole thing behind us. Good luck kid, and thanks for the memories. We'll always have "Freaky Styley".

By: funambulist

funambulist — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:32:15 -0800

First, everyone's albums get leaked and it's been going on for years. Who do the RHCP think they are to be immune? What makes their album leak so special? Secondly, while everyone's albums get leaked, oddly enough, or not, it's always some old big brand names that complain loudly about it. Metallica, U2, Madonna, RHCP... You rarely hear the smaller younger bands bitching and whining about mp3's. Why? Because a) they know it goes to their advantage as free publicity b) they don't have the pressure of being spokepeople for the industry. These statements are not spontaneous complaints about oh the loss of artistic integrity and sound quality. Maybe the "band will be required to denounce illegal leaks" clause is not exactly in the contract, but I very much doubt backs aren't being patted when the denouncing is made. Not a justification, just an observation.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:47:23 -0800

♪♫ I enjoy stealing, it's just as simple as that. When I want something, I don't wanna pay for it. ♪♫

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Fri, 05 May 2006 12:17:58 -0800

After threads like this, I hate Metafilter. surely some elaboration is in order? or are you flea?

By: everichon

everichon — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:12:46 -0800

After threads like this, I hate Metafilter. *hugs erebora just a few seconds too long*

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:24:09 -0800

you're too busy chugging haterade to explain what your problem is? i'm always fascinated by people who post "i hate this place." fucking masochists.

By: jahmoon

jahmoon — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:42:27 -0800

Anyone who is interested in reading more of Flea's amazing writing can look here: Flea's NBA.com Blog

By: illovich

illovich — Fri, 05 May 2006 20:19:50 -0800

then I remembered I do not like the music of the red hot chili peppers nice try, the red hot chili peppers It's like you can read my fucking mind.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Fri, 05 May 2006 21:23:53 -0800

I think, after all this, he should change his name to Plea.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 05 May 2006 21:48:04 -0800

Flea kind of reminds me of Smedleyman, with all those bizarre and unsightly paragraph breaks.

By: Fofer

Fofer — Fri, 05 May 2006 21:50:35 -0800

Flea's best work was as "Needles" in Back to the Future II (and III.)

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 05 May 2006 23:17:37 -0800

Ve vant ze money for zis album, Lebowski.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:38:29 -0800

"Is there any way to say "Hey, please don't download our album without paying for it" that wouldn't piss off people who read the internet?" Yeah, right like that. I'd respect that. "Surely Flea has some stake (however fractional) in the purchase of each cd of his album." Well, I wasn't gonna buy the album before I downloaded it, and I'm not gonna buy it now that I've downloaded it, so he hasn't lost anything. (Hypothetical I, as the real me subscribes to your "If you don't think it's good, don't download it" maxim, even if the real me doesn't necessarily pay for everything he does download.) "and i know that, as sensitive as john frusciante is about sound the idea of anyone getting and hearing this thing that way will devastate him for people to not hear the work the way we meant it to be will really hurt him deep inside and all of us will hurt " It is truly beautiful to think of the RHCP slaving away so hard only to make more music that sucks at such a supersonic level. "if I had worked on anything for a year and a half and was really proud of my work, I'd be miffed if people totally disrespected me and treated me like a chump. That seems to be exactly what people are doing." And now I'm doing it to YOOOOOOUUUUUU!

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 06 May 2006 22:16:59 -0800

Speaking of the Chili Peppers, I just watched the last half hour of the new Saturday Night Live and they were the music act. Incredibly, even though they have a new double album with, what?, about 30 new songs, they decided to play the very expired feeling Give It Away! What. the. Fuck. Chili Peppers?

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Sun, 07 May 2006 09:02:44 -0800

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Fri, 12 May 2006 19:36:56 -0800

It's moving up the charts. What a surprise!