The Net Age

To A-Bomb
Catharine Smith, HuffingtonPost.com

“Outspoken musician John Mellencamp, a fierce critic of the music industry, condemned the Internet at the Grammy Museum on Tuesday, saying, “I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. [...] It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.”…

Mellencamp went on to blame MP3 players for ruining the audio quality of music.

He said, in reference to the audio of a remastered track by The Beatles, “[Y]ou could barely even recognize it as the same song. You could tell it was those guys singing, but the warmth and quality of what the artist intended for us to hear was so vastly different.”…

Hey John…Let It All Hang Out, YouTube.com