The thing that I learned from Radiohead is, I don’t want to ask you what you think it’s worth. ‘Hey, I just worked a year on this thing.’ ‘Well, that’s worth 10 cents.’ ‘Hey, fuck you!’ The Saul thing was a lesson. I naively thought at that time that if you gave the public the choice of do the right thing or not, I thought people would actually do it. Five bucks for an album? And I found that most people, no, they really don’t want to do that. I think I laughed about that and got shit-canned by everybody for whining about wanting to get paid for work that I did.
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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails | Music | A.V. Club (via perpetua)
I switched out the pullquote here because Reznor is always the perfect rejoinder for people who think label hate is an excuse to steal all their music. Here’s a guy with more (and more legitimate) label hate than any fan could ever reasonably have, who tried a Digg-style alternate music release, and got fucked (and accidentally fucked the artist whose music he was releasing), because people simply don’t think art is worth paying the artist for.
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