Theft, pure and simple (From Swindon Advertiser)
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He first rose to fame with XTC in 1977 at the tip of the punk explosion and is still a highly respected member of the music community.
Everyone will remember hits such as Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me), and Senses Working Overtime and now, after 30 years, XTC and Andy have more than 30 albums to their name.
As well as being a singer, songwriter and guitarist, Andy has been a record producer, run his own label, been a broadcaster on radio, appeared on numerous TV programmes and written songs for other
artists, as well as penning film and TV music.
So scroll through the questions and answers at your leisure - you never know, you might learn something!
Theft, pure and simple
11:33am Monday 27th October 2008 in
Q. Hi Andy:
Considering the actual musical market how do you feel about piracy? For young musicians the future profits will be on touring and television gigs?
Saludos
Josefina is arriving to England.
A. Hi Ricardo. It's a sore subject with me as I see it as stealing whichever way you dress it up.
Unfortunately most people under 25 see music as something that's free, nab it from the net and don't think about the artist/writer/record company/shop etc. If you need a plumber you pay them for
the job right?!
So how is it so many fail to recognise the work that goes into writing and recording music and thinking not a jot of paying the artist for their labours. A very misguided and unhelpful way to go
on.
Artists/writers have mouths to feed too, they are people not "STARS" (and hey,even stars deserve their rewards).
I think live work is growing in importance for musicians generally but it is a shame that there is a blind eye turned to the stealing of recorded music. Be well. AP
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