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I hang around the music sections of many news sites, and over the last couple of months I’ve read scores of articles about Radiohead’s In Rainbows album. How they’re changing the face of the music industry, how they’re innovating, how they’re reaching out to their fans. Blah blah blah.

You know what I haven’t read? A decent review.

Two things you should know before we go on:

1. I’ve never been a big fan of Radiohead. They arrived at a hair metal point in my life and I’ve successfully avoided their music so far.
2. I haven’t sought out any reviews yet either. However, I have read the odd comment about the album on social media sites. They usually claim In Rainbows isn’t a patch on their previous material.

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…if you’re downloading his music for free.

In this interview with Billboard, Gene describes how the entire record industry is in a complete mess and how the downloading of music is killing the industry.

Now, Gene’s a guy who protects his copyrights somewhat over enthusiastically. If you’ve read his book, Sex Money Kiss, you’ll know stories of how he’s hunted down owners of KISS fanzines in order to get his dues from them for capitalizing on the KISS brand. So it isn’t any surprise when Gene tells us his feelings on the matter:

The record industry doesn’t have a f*cking clue how to make money. It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work.

Gene seems to have as much respect for the music industry as he does for those college kids he’d love to sue, doesn’t he?

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