Gene Simmons Wants to Sue All MP3 Downloaders (2024)

to further my point, I dont even listen to american music, and I'm fed up, sick and tired, and dumbfounded with how they treat their customers and die-hard loyal fans.

they dont have an unlimited number of fans, and most of them are actually only americans, and of all the americans, only a small minority are crazy about music, and fanatical about stars.

those are the only people who buy music... the rest of america and the world just drops in from time to time, and picks up something thats probably not even 'hot' or 'popular', if they arent happy with Radio Stations

their "industry" is comprised solely of people who love their music to the extent that they most likely know all the lyrics, go ape when they see the singer or group in person, and probably cry to their music, or at least feel soothed or pacified by it.

In short, they are some of the most die-hard and loyal customers on the planet, people who arent afraid to spend all their money on music.

What the internet offered appealed to a far wider audience than the music nut. The internet offered people who dont care about music or singers or groups, the ability to download a song they might have heard on the radio, in a club, or in a store, or from a friend.

It began an era where people were free from having to waste money on 11 crappy songs to get one good song, so it made collecting music a viable option for people who otherwise would not have spent any money on music.

The music industry was staring at the movement, they knew that people were doing it to by pass all the songs they didnt want, the music industry understood that the listeners and public wanted access to only one song, and the music industry laughed, scoffed, scorned, frowned, belittled, chided, and up-turned their noses at the people, demanding from the people that the thing to do was to walk into a store, and buy a complete CD with 11 songs you really really hate, then rip then one song you want out, and have it available on your mp3 player

the music industry sat by month after month, year after year, refusing to acknowledge the listeners lifestyles and technologically-minded youth.

they even went so far as to encourage artists to stand up on national tv and tell the listeners that they were all dirtbag thieves and worthless lowlifes

and so the people responded as any customer, fanboy, and zealot so offended would, responding in kind, by being equally as stand-offish, equally as rude, by treating them the way they were being treated, and by casting them aside, out of their lives, as all humans do, naturally, when faced with tyranny and oppression without caring or concern for their own needs

and thus the relationship between the music industry and all musicians who stood with them against the masses, and the buying population of fans and music nuts was completely severed and destroyed

even people like me, who dont even listen to popular or mainstream music, nor any music from america, have the same opinion of the music industry as the rest of the world, the same view anyone would have of any industry or organization who slandered, attacked, belittled, oppressed, and demanded totalitarian obedience from their customers

iTunes came along WAY after the fact, and nobody really cared about iTunes, as it was a third party who was trying to smooth over the relationship / war between the "music industry" and the people who actually do all the listening to people who would otherwise be singing to the shower head, so iTunes was really unwelcomed on many fronts, and seen as an illegitimate self-indulged solution to which neither warring party took interest in..

iTunes was not able to heal those deep and gaping wounds and broken hearts of the betrayed listeners by the arrogant self-appointed burgoise class of delusional 'elites', who are only where they are because of the listeners support, admiration, and praise, and not because of any special talent or inherent right or exceptional achievement of their own

and so the war wages on

and it will continue to do so until the music industry kowtows on bended knee before their ex-customers and ex-fanbase, and creates specific methods for providing what music nuts / techies want, endorsed and gracious offers of MP3 downloads from artist-specific pages with personalized thank you notes from each band member to all those who downloaded a 1$ copy of an mp3

Gene Simmons Wants to Sue All MP3 Downloaders (2024)

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What is Gene Simmons least favorite KISS song? ›

Gene Simmons has stated that "I Was Made for Lovin' You" is his least favorite Kiss song, and Ace Frehley and Peter Criss have also indicated that they dislike the song.

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One of the techniques used by many rap artists to convey raw and heavy-hitting lyrics is through the use of swear words, the focal point of this study. In general, words that are more likely to offend potential listeners are more likely to be swear words (Beers Fägersten, 2007).

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Pophouse — the Swedish company that backed ABBA's Voyage show in London and owns rights to music by Swedish House Mafia, Avicii and Cyndi Lauper — is acquiring KISS' publishing, recording royalties and trademarks, including both the band's logo and its iconic makeup design.

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Gene Simmons, of Kiss, owns the trademark on the money bag, with dollar sign, logo. As a result, Geffen Records had to send Gene a cheque when the logo was used on Teenage Fanclub's fab 1991 album, Bandwagonesque.

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The lyrics of the song were written in response to the criticism Eminem received for his rap style. In the song, Eminem mocks those who question his ability to rap and shows off his lyrical technique, demonstrating why he is considered one of the greatest MCs in the history of rap.

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The song was produced by Ronny J and Nils. It was released on September 3, 2018, by Bad Boy Records and Interscope Records, as a single from the rapper's second extended play Binge. The song's title is a play on Eminem's "Rap God", and is his response to Eminem's song "Not Alike".

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Keith Richards says he doesn't like rap music because he doesn't enjoy “people yelling at me”. One of the most well-known guitarists in rock music – a genre that could also be argued to be defined by “people yelling” – Richards makes the revelation on his musical tastes in a new interview with The Telegraph.

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