Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

For the downfall of music as opposed to just "illegal downloads." In addition, the overcompensation of artists. That is the statement from an article on the music industry's current financial woes. Wow! Now there's a thought! Let's check some things out. Music just plain sucks on the radio. Last I heard was everyone taking tracks of other people and striping them together to create "new music." And these fucking record labels are SUING their customers for downloading music? How about these shit copycats that can't write worth jack and just are nothing more than elaborate karaoke acts? Shit, I should've just grabbed my guitar and did Def Leppard cover tunes rather than go into development. The hypocrisy and ludicrousy of these music labels are only matched by their greed and their lawyers' viciousness. Next check out the statement on overcompensation. Imagine how different society would be if say Britney Spears made $70k/year for her cheese act? Or if Tom Cruise made a flat $80k/year tops? It wouldn't be this crappy exclusive club where they pat each other on the backs during those shitty, overrated glam parties called Awards Night if people were making as much as a good developer. Think about those kinds of consequences. They'd be AVERAGE. Not that everyone of those people are just typical humanoids if you strip them down of everything besides what they were born with. But imagine just walking down the street where your neighbor is Keannu Reeves on one side and on the other side is Ayumi Hamasaki or something like that. Both would have just a simple one story house, front lawn, maybe one car, a Corolla, and are struggling against Everyone's foe, Uncle Sam, just to get through their daily lives. It wouldn't be this goddamn exclusive elitist club any longer, but just a gathering of typical people with the same level of access as anyone else. Instead, you'd see Keannu Reeves with a beer gut and Ayumi Hamasaki with K-Mart jeans cooking Paul Newman spaghetti. Great image, right? Wouldn't it be wonderful if these people, indeed, were compensated like everyone else? I mean, I just don't get how a Harrison Ford, et al. can simply demand 25 million just for signing a contract. What do you need all that money for? I know in my case my parents could use it to help my father's condition and fixing up the house. But of course that wouldn't be a problem if the government did SOMETHING to help them out for all their hard earned tax dollars that was raped like the pedophile Uncle Sam is. But that's what it is these days, huh? Just a small exclusive club where everyone is so goddamn greedy that they don't give a shit about people suffering. Well honestly, I don't either. And when the Sun goes super nova or when a black hole fucking swallows the galaxy, I'm going to be having a long ass laugh.