The Swarm

May 31, 2007

Steve Albini on Shellac leak: "harmless"

TDS Editors

So apparently the new Shellac album, or at least part of it, leaked. Since the last one came out pre-yousendit, we asked Albini what he thought.

Steve wrote:

“Don’t care. That sort of thing is inevitable and meaningless at the same time. I am not of the opinion that downloads cost sales, because someone who has decided he won’t pay for your record is not a customer you can lose—he is unwilling to be a customer. Downloads reach those people who don’t really like music enough to be participants in it as a culture, they just want to consume at their leisure, casually, the way my mother would have the kitchen radio playing while she did housework. I have no interest in these people or what their relationship to music is. It certainly doesn’t mirror mine, but it is (they are) harmless.”



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