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What a douche. It is completely insensitive to wish death on anyone; especially someone already closer to death than the rest of us
 
It was a crappy thing to say, but I think I may know why he said it. iTunes changed the music industry in a way that many musicians disliked. It killed record stores and a lot of the culture that surrounded music, which was directly related to record stores. These are the places many musicians gathered, not just to buy music, but to meet each other.

The way I see it though, is that is was actually good for music and independent record stores in a way. Here in Chicago, the only stores that have survived are the independent stores. They've survived and indeed, thrived, by focusing on selling mostly vinyl. In big cities, vinyl sales are huge, but in smaller places, not so much. Their stores are gone. So I can kind of see what he's saying. That still does not make it right.

That's not really true though - the digitisation of music, and the internet were always going to kill the record store (and the album too!). What iTunes did was offer a viable, legal option to piracy. Artists/labels might prefer old record stores, and vinyl, or CDs with great album art - and blame iTunes for it - but the general public was going in a different direction regardless.

How any modern artist could be oblivious to that, is bizarre.
 
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They are in their 40s and still play the same punk music they played when try were 20. They will never mature and grow up. They will always be immature little brats. Punk is fine when you're young and rebellious, or if youre just listening to it because you like the musical energy; but the lifestyle is mostly just ignorant little whiny children. Green Day has sucked for years.
 
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