Gildenlow Ticks Me Off

Avantgardehead wrote: WinterLight wrote: Avantgardehead wrote: It just seems hilariously hypocritical and pretentious to me. If I were all of the sudden anti-capitalist, I'd put all my music on my website to be freely downloaded. And you'd probably starve. Obviously not since I have a job and other investments at the moment. I don't dislike the album or the guy because he's "using his resources", it's just the irony of venomously damning selling things while turning around and selling things like music, politics, and sleaze that irks me.

And you'd obviously not be anti-capitalist if you had a job and investments.  Ironic, yes.  Hypocritical, no.  If Gildenlow was singing about this stuff and making money on it, but didn't actually believe any of it (but was selling it to people who did), THAT would be hypocrisy.  As it is, he has to make a living somehow, and giving his albums away isn't going to do it.  He's a musician, so to survive in the world right now, he has no choice but to sell his music (assuming he still wants to be a musician and not beg on street corners).

This thread is becoming perhaps the most shallow debate over political philosophy that I've ever encountered. Let's just make two things clear:

1) Not even communists are against making money. They just advocate another system of distribution of that income (and, incidentally, one that is totally inefficient and useless and which lowers productivity).

2) If Gildenlöw would have had "making money" as his number one preoccupation, he would have been playing something other than progressive metal.

What I cant understand is your all or nothing attitude..

Eh, that's how I am. I have my views and you all have yours, so let's all just move along.