In The Contest Of Life, I Declare Myself A WINNER!
My hunch, that U2 is now a giant corporate machine, every year grossing more than many countries (which must be why Bono thinks he's up there with world leaders), is certainly correct. Lately their lawyers have been going after every single downloader of U2 anything, even 4 year old fan recordings. They've been slamming the torrent sites with letters from their lawyers in Hamburg (though they are not responsible for the death of easytree, that was Nirvana's lawyers, says the scuttlebutt on teh internets). Dimeadozen has had to ban U2 recordings and most everybody else is following suit. It wasn't always this way. Quoth the messiah (in 2001): "We invite people to bootleg our shows. We invite people to make copies, we've no problems with that, but if some guy is gonna make money off the back of this, we're gonna find out where he parks his car." That was all fair enough. But now the happy traders (I USED to be one) are getting ratted out by some misguided Gestapo of "fans" who report any filesharing or bootleg-selling. I agree that people trying to sell these things are violating copyrights, but a fan can't make a recording and share it anymore? Boo, Bono!
Plus their last album, How To Dismantle A Career, was underwhelming at best. I've said it before, I'll say it again, they sound like one of those tribute bands. Plus, how sad is that? Some middle-aged mullet-headed guy trying to croon like Bono? Ew. Only a Rush cover band would be worse.
I, on the other hand, do not suck. This is my most recent painting. It's about 4'x6', like most of my recent things. I figured, since I draw so many useless little doodles, when I paint, I might as well PAINT. Though, like much of my output lately, this is rather collage-y.
My hunch, that U2 is now a giant corporate machine, every year grossing more than many countries (which must be why Bono thinks he's up there with world leaders), is certainly correct. Lately their lawyers have been going after every single downloader of U2 anything, even 4 year old fan recordings. They've been slamming the torrent sites with letters from their lawyers in Hamburg (though they are not responsible for the death of easytree, that was Nirvana's lawyers, says the scuttlebutt on teh internets). Dimeadozen has had to ban U2 recordings and most everybody else is following suit. It wasn't always this way. Quoth the messiah (in 2001): "We invite people to bootleg our shows. We invite people to make copies, we've no problems with that, but if some guy is gonna make money off the back of this, we're gonna find out where he parks his car." That was all fair enough. But now the happy traders (I USED to be one) are getting ratted out by some misguided Gestapo of "fans" who report any filesharing or bootleg-selling. I agree that people trying to sell these things are violating copyrights, but a fan can't make a recording and share it anymore? Boo, Bono!
Plus their last album, How To Dismantle A Career, was underwhelming at best. I've said it before, I'll say it again, they sound like one of those tribute bands. Plus, how sad is that? Some middle-aged mullet-headed guy trying to croon like Bono? Ew. Only a Rush cover band would be worse.
I, on the other hand, do not suck. This is my most recent painting. It's about 4'x6', like most of my recent things. I figured, since I draw so many useless little doodles, when I paint, I might as well PAINT. Though, like much of my output lately, this is rather collage-y.
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