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Slipknot Frontman Says Labels Cause Piracy

Slipknot vocalist and frontman Corey Taylor says it’s time for the music industry to stop taking legal action against downloaders. He feels it is the labels themselves who are to blame for online piracy, since the quality of released music is so bad, no-one wants to buy it.

coreySlipknot vocalist and frontman Corey Taylor has launched an attack on recording labels, saying that instead of spending their time chasing downloaders, they should use their resources to find bands that produce better music.

Taylor told Kerrang: “Why would you blame (people who download music)? Half the f**king albums that are out there are s**t. I don’t download, but at the same time, I don’t buy new music ’cause it all sucks. Okay, there’s a handful of bands that I buy, but other than that, I just buy old s**t because old s**t is good. Sorry!”

Taylor, who recently collected a Kerrang award on behalf of the band saying “I just showed up for the booze,” says that it’s not fair to blame the fall in album sales on file-sharers, and lays the blame squarely on the shoulders of the labels:

“People wanna blame the decline of album sales on downloading – I think it’s actually the record companies’ fault.”

Of course, lots of people blame the labels for piracy but Taylor believes they aren’t doing their job properly since they promote acts which aren’t up to standard, resulting in people feeling the acts simply aren’t worth the money.

“I think it’s the quality of the product. If record companies would stop giving any f**king mook (idiot) on the street with a fringe a record deal or their own record label, maybe you would sell more f**king albums, dips**ts.”

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  • mentality

    probally one the funniest reads so far, but on a more serious note its very true but i don’t expect every band to be good but come on some of these people just slap lyrics and music together that label gives them in the first place give me a break, and in many ways i agree with what was stated

  • Norway FTW!

    “[...]since the quality of released music is so bad, no-one wants to buy it.”
    That’s what I’ve been saying for a long time. Give me a couple of bands like Kiss and Toto. That’s genious!

  • Diji1

    ermm, for me it has nothing to do with the quality, i just like getting music for free. I don’t download music I dont like.

  • The_Sinister_Mastermind

    One such example of shit music that’s not up to standard is Slipknot itself. Though after this at least Cory Taylor has gained a little bit of credibility.

  • vicmackey

    i can’t say that i think slipknot is one of my favorites, but its better than 90% of the shit that gets produced here in the states.
    Corey taylor is a cool dude, even if i think his bands music is shitty.

  • Buddamus

    I only buy unsigned artists music as they need the money, do they really need the money wasting a million $ on a Brittany spears video?

  • wat

    “He feels it is the labels themselves who are to blame for online piracy, since the quality of released music is so bad, no-one wants to buy it”

    Exactly. Slipknot’s latest album is shit.

  • hogwash

    Not a slipknot fan, but it is better then the bullshit emo crap

    list of bands that should get hit by a bus, then raped by a honey badger

    paramore
    my chemical romance
    the used
    metro station
    pussy cat dolls
    britney spears
    u2
    metallica (mainly just lars)
    feist
    amy whinehouse
    gym class heroes
    coldplay
    red hot chili peppers
    katy perry
    green day
    fall out boy
    and maroon 5

  • Barse

    I agree with #3. I am never going to buy music again. I like getting it free. I don’t even listen to most of the stuff I get free. I just like getting it.

  • HelloWorld;

    Is that guy talking about himself?
    (record companies would stop giving any f**king mook (idiot) on the street with a fringe a record deal or their own record label)

  • Anonymous

    Modern pop music is moving more and more towards porn…

    We’ve got porn for free in many years, right?

    Modern acts don’t sell music anymore, they sell porn, and MTV is the new PlayBoy channel…

  • MeepMeep

    Well Corey … just follow Trent’s steps and leave that f**king industry (Roadrunner Records)!

  • Anonymous

    recording sales were going down way before the advent of internet. i guess there’s a limit to amount of repetition plebs will endure. Industrial music stars are manufactured to make big buck, at a cost of true musicians, audience and culture in general. You should consider sepuku.

    is my dick big enough,
    is my brain small enough,
    for Youuu to make me a staaaar….

  • hmm

    It’s a nice idea but I don’t think music’s gotten any worse as a whole recently. The industry always has horrible guys and wonderful ones, it’s just that we remember the good ones more often because…well because they were good, so we still have their stuff.

  • awww

    3 Sep 10, 2008 at 10:28 by Diji1

    so you like music? apparently you do, as its stated in your comment. but what kind of music you like? type of: “fuck her in the mouth,yeee! slap her with a dick, slap her with a dick!”

    way that your brain evolved is a insult for nature, and evolution.
    so please, if i can say this in a polite way, stop wasting an air that someone that is actually worth of it could use it.

    “random rambling about low pay, dumb society unfair world etc”

    ontopic: good to see that some artists can think for themselves, and observe the world they live in.

  • hum

    hogwash u forgot biohazard lol.

  • r0ck

    @14: So you really believe “American Idol” didn’t have any impact on the quality of what is acceptable as music in general?

    Sorry but here in Europe ever since this “casting show” crap started the music industry has turned out more shit than a cow farmer with diarrhea. What you are referring to is the good ol’ days when there were talented musicians who you thought were horrible and talented musicians of whom you thought they were brilliant.

    Nowadays it’s untalented computer aided milk faced boybands left and right who can barely sing if at all and all you need to remember is how to do a silly dance coreography to playback to be a star. That’s fucked up and should end … right here.

  • pink panther

    Illogical. If the albums are ****, then why would anyone want to download them either? His reasoning is not logical.

  • hogwash

    @15
    biohazard rules only because of their name so no

  • Unkie

    This guy is really grounded. At least he said what we all have been saying for yonks…

    @ hogwash, totally agree. you need to add soulja boy, although not emo. still.

  • fanty

    @ 16: His point is that they are good enough to download for free but not good enough to pay money for. (And I’m sure there are plenty of musicians so bad that no one even wants to download them for free, we just never heard about them, because they are so bad :P)

  • …

    And yet another one in the industry with a working brain

  • Wooo

    Slipknot are awesome! And their latest album is immense if you actually listened to it.

  • bleh

    Regardless of if Slipknot is actually good or not doesn’t really make a difference.. what he said is still true.

    What people dont understand is that by downloading, you are changing your future. Think about if we let the companies continue to dominate the market.. they would control everything in time.

  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    @hogwash, you forgot Indiana Gregg… or are you scared the ‘internet police’ will come and get you if you add her to that list? :D

  • dPsychc

    Slpknot rocks

  • Izkata

    I don’t really care for Slipknot’s music, but their comments make perfect sense. And are indeed what I go by.

  • Gnoz

    Totally agree with this guy.
    Tho I don’t really have a taste for his music…

    Slipknot doesn’t rock… Piracy does!

  • LRN

    Maybe for some people (like this guy from Slipknot) it’s a revelation, but it should be obvious for anyone that recording industry isn’t about quality or music, or art. It’s all about money. Labels are making money, and most of the bands are just making money.
    It’s like software development. First rule of any software development company – outsource as much as you can. You’re not making the world better by producing useful, inspirational information of highest quality. You’re making money.
    Capitalization of the art rocks. Sure…

  • #YLS#

    It’s not the standard of music that’s slipped.

    It’s the repeativeness of it all… Along comes one pop singer, along comes another 100 clones. The problem is it’s replicated to all genres.

    It’s like anything, the more there is of something the less value it has, music has dropped in value from the fact we can all make music.

    The industry needs to open it’s eyes.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t like Slipknot, but at least the guy has a brain and knows that suing your customers into buying music is not the way to go. I listen to a guy who’s what I call “famously unfamous” and despite the fact that he’s a famous singer, not a lot of people buy or pirate his music. Ha ha, but he’s really good though, his name’s Kevin Max.

  • Quasimodo

    Not the “quality” of music is the music industry’s problem. “Quality” usually is a matter of taste.
    And people buy all sorts of crap anyway.

    The industry’s REAL problem is, their main target group usually doesn’t have the money to sustain the music industry as it is now.

  • Anonymous

    The music industry doesn’t realize that the average person is not funneling their money into the music industry because they have to pay for more important things, like bills, food, and gas, most of it’s going into gas.

  • Chris

    Nice to see someone said it like it should be said, with the profanity and all =]

  • Anthony Damasco

    Well said corey

  • Jim

    @8 Mostly agree, but Feist and RHCP are high quality man. Not everybody’s style, but they know how to A. write music and B. play it.

  • Jim

    Also, Slipknot is terrible, but decent statement. This was obvious 5 years ago, and from a former major label employee I can tell you they aren’t getting any smaller. The revolution is in independent music/labels/businesses, search and you will find quality and music worth supporting!

  • http://www.fetchmp3.com

    Until more folks like this complain its going to be business as usual. The artists need to step up. There is only so much we, as the end user, can do.

    J>

  • …Frank Furter

    I actually end up deleting 90 percent of what I download, because it oftens turns out to be pure shit.

    I download to find new music. I used to take a chance on a $15.00 cd, but Ive been burned way to many times. Fuck the RIAA/MPAA, they got more than their fair share of my cash.

  • Anonymous

    #13 wins for the dead kennedys reference

  • Tom G

    Amen, brother. A LOT of the music on albums is not worth it. One of the interesting fights, in my opinion, is between labels and Apple. The labels don’t like the single song download model in iTunes because people, by their own choice, can eliminate the *&#$*! songs and only buy the songs they like. Labels want people to buy whole albums – even if 9 out of 10 songs are awful. I think that if labels are given the power to demand people buy whole, low-quality albums then music sharing will surge way beyond where it is now. They have a choice. Produce good music, or allow people to select specific songs at low prices.

  • Goatmaster

    As someone who has been taken to the cleaners by the RIAA I’ll say this-

    After you are coerced out of $3000 you learn how to use IRC / flash mp3 recording really quick.

    And consequently after you pay the bastards their payoff money you probably aren’t going to buy any more albums either.

  • Antipas

    The labels just haven’t been doing anything right for the last decade.

    Remember buying a casette/CD and it was great beginning to end?

    Last time that happened for me was probably the mid-90′s. Though surprisingly there have been a couple of exceptions lately…The Verve, Radiohead, and NIN come to mind.

    My buddy played a couple of the new Metallica songs, and while I will never put those assclowns back on my playlist for screwing their fans, the songs sounded really good…good enough to pay for. Sorry Lars, too little, too late.

  • watermelon man

    “Half the f**king albums that are out there are s**t.”

    Like, say, every slipknot album. Ever.

  • turd sandwich

    I agree most of the music put out by labels is shit, but the U.S. is not the only place that has artists. There are much better bands for you to listen too if you’d just look outside the U.S.

    METAL FTW!
    http://metal-archives.com/

  • Iko

    Disparaging Slipknot’s music contributes nothing to the discussion. Here’s the lead singer of a band that ostensibly has made significant sums of money over the years as professional musicians and he’s diagnosing the problem with the music industry as being the record companies themselves and not the customers. He, like Trent Reznor, is in a better position to observe and comment on this issue that either the customers or the record companies themselves.

  • Warren

    Downloaded songs are just the flavor of the week. Everyone has that one song they hear on the radio and have to download to look cool at a party or driving in their car, blasting it out the windows.

    Examples:
    “I Kissed A Girl”
    “Paper Planes” by MIA (from Pineapple Express)
    “Soulja Boy”

    There’s more, clearly, but you get the idea. The best bands produce ALBUMS, not just SONGS. Look at the great artists – Zeppelin, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder…albums, not songs, show an artist’s true talent. Name one album by any band on the market right now. Come on, try it.

  • lewi

    @ #8

    Are you fucking serious?

    u2
    metallica (mainly just lars)
    amy whinehouse
    coldplay
    red hot chili peppers

    Should NOT be on that list.

  • monster_mack

    Partially agree with him.
    Myself stopped buying music in the 20th century because it was too fucking expensive.

    Internet is much more convenient, even tried to paysites like allofmp3 then got into free shit completely.

    All you label execs, I fuck your mothers :)

  • Eh

    @8 What one person calls c**p another person calls awesome. Everyone has different tastes. Some mainly like metal, some pop, some rock, some rap, etc. I actually like some of the bands on that list. XD

    Really though, you can’t go and make lots of bands stop because you hate their music; then everyone who does like it will be mad.

  • Mastersinmusicbusiness

    While not the most eloquent way to put it, he does nail it 110%.

  • AdamL

    Agreed the new Slipknot album seems like a rushed album not worth buying, bad stone sour mixed with Vol3 garbage(from a fan). :-(

  • kidTHATthinks

    @Warren

    so true that it hurts. for whatever i have listened there are always around 2 songs that carry the album, rest is just to fill the silence.

    these times are just not for people like John Lennon.

  • Anonymous

    this is so fucking true

    corey taylor hit the nail on the head there

  • Anonymous

    He’s kind of right. All the new stuff is pretty much geared toward girls so the guys are like, “this sucks, I’ll just download it”. Maybe if they stopped promoting everything toward the girls like Ashley Tisdale and shit, then maybe the guys will stop downloading the stuff and start buying.

  • Svenicus

    I totally agree, the majority of new music today is crud. I’ll download an album to see if it’s any good, if it is i’ll go out and buy it. If not I delete it.

  • anonymous

    i download all music, and if there is a way to donate directly to an artist i like, ii’ll do that. but i refuse to spend between 10 to 15 $ on a cd. considering that even if i think the artist is good enough to give money to, they receive like $.25 to $.50 per album bought, while the rest goes to some worthless cocksucker who tries to force this clone bullshit in my ear. and why hasn’t anyone said anything about the rock bands who all copied that suck ass group pearl jam/turd. how many constipated fags singing from their throat do i have to hear? fuck, 1 was bad enough, now there is like 300 clone groups of salad tossing jizz guzzlers.

  • Anonymous

    no wonder Disturbed and Whitesnake hit the charts this summer, despite iPod madness. ups, did i just say iPod?

  • Jiffy Loop

    Actualyl, people trying to save money during tough times causes piracy. Plain and simple economics. Why buy it when you can get it for free and never have to leave the house?

    Jiff
    http://www.anonymize.us.tc

  • megade_th

    totally agree with corey, don’t want to buy whole freaking album just for one good song init.

  • deadgopher

    He’s right. I buy music that appeals to me (mostly indie rock, underground hip-hop and buttloads of electronica) that probably doesn’t show up on the RIAA-man’s radar. The mainstream is filled with trash. Compare today’s mainstream to the 60s, 70s and 80s. Hell even the early 90s. Nirvana, smashing pumpkins, angry NIN Trent, that was good shit. Now there’s Nickelback and some douche copy/pasting the latest emo act to get some action and some dolla bills.

    Thus, sales are down, and let’s blame the internet.

  • deadgopher

    Slipknot does suck, though it might not be his fault. Aren’t there like 8 other dudes in that band?

  • Andrew

    I don’t agree with his stance on the piracy issue at all. Firstly, he completely ignores the concept that musical taste is subjective. For example, my favorite type of music is Scandinavian metal from the early to mid-nineties, and while I love it, it would be stupid of me to assume that the average person would like it as much as I do, if at all.

    Secondly, what does “up to standard” refer to? Talent? Because talent is subjective, too. I mean, seriously, how do you define talent in regards to music? The ability to compose something that’s enjoyable to listen to? The ability to sing in a way that’s enjoyable to listen to? The ability to play an instrument tastefully, or technically, or both? All of those things are a matter of opinion and personal taste, so you really can’t argue that the compositional ability or musical ability of a band or musician has anything to do with it.

    I think the real problem with music piracy has more to do with just how easy it is to obtain music over a peer-to-peer network. If, for example, you were to go to a store , any store , and could take from it whatever you wanted without fear of being caught, there’s a chance, no matter what upbringing you have, that you’ll be tempted to steal something. Similarly, piracy is not a big deal to a lot of people because most people who pirate won’t be punished for it. So much illegal downloading is done per day that it’s simply impossible to punish everyone who pirates.

    ‘Cause let’s face it, most people don’t like to spend money when there are alternatives to doing so, even when it’s at the expense of the person selling the product. Furthermore, pirating music isn’t just easy , it’s CONVENIENT to the downloader. It requires very little effort to find a desired album , even if the album is hard to find in stores or is out of print. It’s an alternative to having to go to a store to buy an album, and, if the album is hard to come by, it’s an alternative to having to order an imported or out-of-print version online. Considering that, it does not surprise me in the slightest that people would resort to pirating music.

    As far as Corey’s position on the issue is concerned, while I don’t agree with him, I won’t say his view on the issue is “wrong,” because there is not, as of yet, any empirical evidence to what the root of the piracy problem is. Chances are, it’s a number of things. I do, however, think his opinion is poorly founded (though I don’t mean anything personal by that statement).
    If this subject interests you at all, I strongly recommend reading the following article. It’s long, but the author makes some valid points. Plus he has experience with the music industry:
    http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

  • Assassinave

    @Hogwash

    Lumping Feist and the Chili Peppers in with the rest isn’t really fair.

    RHCP lately is not as great as previous years, but I would have agreed more if it were Smashing Pumpkins.

    Amongst those you mentioned Metallica as shit, but didn’t put in Godsmack, Hinder, Three Doors Down, Daughtery, Staind, Nickelback. Just a smattering of bands that will always be more shit than Metallica despite any future transgressions they should make.

  • Jesus

    Holy shit, something by Slipknot worth listening to! Who’da thunk it?

  • 67

    Has nothing to do with the quality there. Everything’s in the taste. If you don’t like ‘crappy’ you don’t buy crappy, nor you download crappy. People download because it’s available, because it is free and because that is the age we are living in. Digital – piracy. Everything evolves. Nothing dies, it just transforms.

  • TheYunvus

    Exactly!! Aside from Taylor’s colorful wording, he’s exactly right. This is why I haven’t purchased an album in nearly 10 years.

  • Webguy

    The problem with the music industry as a whole is a simple formula::

    Like a monkey.. throw as much crap at the audience as possible.. if something sticks.. grab as much of that type of crap and throw it as hard and as fast as you can until it doesn’t stick anymore.

    Rinse and repeat.

    Maybe, just maybe.. people don’t want to pay to have a monkey throw crap at them anymore.

  • benjamin

    but why slipknot?

  • Johnny

    How would Taylor know whats good music? he is lead singer of slipknot….

  • B

    I don’t mind Slipknot, but Stone Sour is pretty fuckin’ good.

  • Anonymous

    Because slipknot is so good.

  • John Smalls

    All Hope is Gone is an amazing album, that is very diverse and an amazing vocal performance from Corey. I think everything he said is true. Popular music is really terrible.

  • konfusion

    To be fair, I usually download songs I think have the potential to be good, and check out how they are. Then, when I can afford it, I go buy the album, provided I liked the music. Currently, I can’t afford to buy a lot of the music in my library… :P

  • andrew_t29

    I consider Slipknot shitty, but this Taylor dude is pretty legit. I use the method where I download everything but if I really like it I go out and buy it.

  • ewokmyweewok

    id buy more music if it came with more than just a cd..

  • JP

    as a 35 year old guy that is hip to the “scene” I was particularly disturbed by the fact that the MTV video awards that were on Sunday night did not have one rock act in the “Best Male Video” category. The “stars” that were nominated do not even write their own shit and they certainly don’t play any instruments.
    The Jonas Brothers hardly fall into what I would classify as Rock music. Nor does the new Metalica album do anything for me. Support indie labels. That is where the good shit is. People will continue to download the crappy stuff and buy the decent stuff.

  • Politik

    “Taylor told Kerrang: “Why would you blame (people who download music)? Half the f**king albums that are out there are s**t. I don’t download, but at the same time, I don’t buy new music ’cause it all sucks.”

    Sorry Corey all hope is gone fucking sucks too.

    All EMO sooky sook… with long drawn out metal ballads… go back to screaming and belting out raw metal magic.

    But I do agree with what you’ve said, the music industry churns out one hit wonders and music that all sounds the same.

    You hear one shit song, you hear a thousand.

  • Great Big Mouth

    @ hogwash:

    you’re ideas intrigue me and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  • Blag

    He does have a point, I have two groups that I absolutely love, and I would never pirate their stuff ever.

    Keep up the good work Daft Punk and Gorillaz.

  • Anonymous

    hahahaha.
    that was brilliant.

    love that dude.

  • sponks
  • yeah

    while slipknot is a steaming pile of shit themselves I do agree with what this man has to say. the labels are thinking completely backward on this issue

  • Michael

    Exactly right Corey. I pay for every Tool album that comes out. But I don’t pay for Nickelback!

  • matthews

    I personally like some jamendo or pandora radio. I will buy a t-shirt, a nice case and album art, or even concert tickets. I will not use I-tunes or pay 20 dollars for a plastic and foil disk. I also won’t pay a dollar for a fricking mp3.

  • matthews

    by nice case I mean a tin or collectors case and by album art. I mean a real book not those cheap shitty jewel cases.

  • Pockets

    Wow, It’s almost as if there are record company executives here. Seriously, who cares if you don’t like Slipknot’s music, get over yourself, what he said is correct.

    There is too much generic “cookie cutter” trash released now, it’s almost as if anyone with talent is ignored and anyone with “a pretty face” who can lip sync is given a record contract.

  • jasonj

    You’re all saying that new stuff is sh!t. That means ur getting old. Shut up and die.

    Why would people download music to listen to, but wont pay cause it’s bad music? Why download it if it’s bad music then? The example that is being used is seriously warped and JUST an excuse for the author to say how all other new music is crap. (which it is :)

  • g dog

    i dl all the time… but when i really like something i go and buy the album. i dont even like slipknot but im with him on this one.

  • Cass

    First of all the mans right on the money. We’ve all been saying this for years. Glad to hear he feels the same way. Plus, Slipknot is amazing! Their latest album, if you haven’t heard, rocks!

  • Eh

    @JP – No, the Jonas Brothers are not rock.

    “You’re all saying that new stuff is sh!t. That means ur getting old. Shut up and die.”

    I’m not sure why but I found that real funny.

  • X203

    “they should use their resources to find bands that produce better music.”
    That is out right crazy talk. They would have to invest and support artists. It’s much ezer to just sue people for music that is already out their then bring loads of good music to the tables. Besides they get to pocket all the money from the lawsuits they file in the name of the artists hard work…

  • YODXFS

    @ 8

    You forgot these…

    Jesse McCartney
    Aly & AJ
    Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
    Marié Digby
    Plain White T’s
    Hayden Panettiere
    Corbin Bleu
    Miley Cyrus
    Vanessa Hudgens
    Jordan Pruitt
    Atreyu
    Jonas Brothers
    Selena Gomez
    Demi Lovato
    Alpha Rev

  • hogwash

    i actually like fiest
    hate the chili peppers, but i threw them in there for the hell of it.

  • Anonymous

    Nicely Said =)

  • PooOnYou

    I just hope you all realize that Slipknot was the #1 Album in sales its first week out on the week of Aug 23rd on the US Billboard Music Sales over “The Game’s” new album…

    With that said yes their new CD isn’t their best but it is better than more than 75% of the crap being put out every day…

  • its over johnny

    Maybe if the labels payed the artist.
    Every Joe Smoe off the street would not have a contract.
    After all what does the label care?
    They just ass rape everyone. and collect the funds

    In a perfect setting there would be fair compensation for the artist. As well as standards for the materials produced.

  • final fantasy fanatic

    I’m amazed no one said The Killers yet. That really is a terrible band, all of their lyrics don’t make sense. In fact I bought their CD because there were only two song I’d heard on the radio and liked and I regret spending that $20. The rest of the songs were horrible and when I looked up the lyrics it was even worse then I initially thought.

  • Anonymous

    Its ironic that a slipknot member is saying most bands are shit.

    Though its true, the irony is hilarious.

  • zarathustra

    Looks like the little yellow bus broke down today; there’s more than a few tards in today, randomly pressing keys & then hitting ‘Respond’.

    FFS, who gives a SHIT whether slipknot is ‘teh cule’ or not?

    Try & keep on-topic, kiddlies – mkay? M-KAY!

    hth
    hand
    kthxbai…

  • Anonymous

    Corey Tsylor rocks!!! i jsut show upfor the booze…

  • FB

    There is filesharing out there, and there are lower sales. But even after the music industry collapsed upon itself musicians still exist. They are like painters and authors. They have a deep-down need to create, which is why we have so many bands after the so called collapse.

    But Corey is right. There is too many bad sounding bands out there now, and thats why the sales are dropping. Not the downloading.

  • hmmph

    If all a band is about making money… they can go fuck themselves.

    If I had to choose between a world with no music or the shit we have goin on right now..

    I would choose no music.

    Of course we all know that would never happen, music will always exists, money or not.

  • TITLER69

    Ok here how it goes people just like downloading music because of the fact that they may like a band but don’t like all of their songs, and they may like many band but want to put them together to make up some awesome listening. It’s not that they don’t want to buy it’s that you have way more choice when downloading. Me myself i don’t download because I prefer not to get viruses but I do take music off of CD’s that I own and bought and then add them all together makes way better listening for the car of a MP3 player. Just let go of the stupidity and let people download it’s not hurting you. You still get sales, you still get all your money so why do you have to attack the people who may not have the money to go out and buy every record they like.

  • Panic

    Slipknots new album is actually pretty fucking kickass

  • AntiAuthority

    I would say Corey Taylor, is correct in his theory for the most part, but file-sharing is like a drug, its gets more addicting everytime until you just can’t get enough. So yes its the quality of music being produced but also the people just downloading because they can and its free.

    P.S. I think Papa Roach Band should fucking walk in front of a frieght train, because they were good when infest came out but then they changed over to this emo fag sounding shit!!!

  • Anonymous

    fuck yeah slipknot & corey…

  • enigmatic_vox

    People download music because it is free and they dont believe that the music is worth buying. You cannot tell me that music is good these days. I hear the radio it is ALL garbage ….. I blame it on Nirvana (which I hate) …. They thrust that band on the entire world and the fucking guy couldnt even sing worth a shit! And music has went into the shitter since!

  • Ithyphallic52

    i support bands by buying merchandise. i never pay for the music. but if i like them enough i will buy their shirts, go to concerts etc.

  • waawaawaa

    The music industry is paying the price for not lowering the prices of cds etc as promised many many times, unfortunately for them money is god.

  • James

    Well maybe if the music industry hired musicians instead of actors there might be a change. To me, music when to shit from the early 90′s.

  • RockOn

    Slipknots latest album is one of the best ‘complete’ albums I’ve heard in a long time….It has a bit of everything I like….And I’ve beenn in into rock and metal for 40+ years.
    His comments also makes sense but it’s more about people admitting….Everyone knows the labels are to blame.

  • B3spacecadet

    None of youz are getting it. People are not downloading major record label crap. People are downloading alternatives such as Boards of Canada, Bonobo, The Cinematic Orchestra, Tycho and many other [good] artists that belong to independent record labels. RIAA are just playing victim, when in reality, more people downloaded BOC’s Geogaddi than Beyonce’s latest album.

  • Me

    We don’t want labels.

  • B3spaceacedet

    @114

    Why not? The concept of a label is not bad, infact, it’s good. The intention of a label is to ease the the medium for which an artist can gain recognition and earn money for their work. It’s the practice that make most labels bad, not the theory. We shouldn’t abolish labels, we need to promote less greed in the business models of them or control it by some sort of system (god bless).

  • KIMP

    All Corey said its true. The state of American music today is sad, f#*king sad!

    And it has nothing to do with if you like Slipknot or not you morons!

    At least with video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band being so popular, teens today are discovering music that his something else then corporate gimmick crap like all of the Hip Hop filling the TV and airwaves.

  • commonenemy

    good point. most albums only have 3-5 worthy songs. rest are fillers…lol

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