Comments on: Icky Thumping http://velvethowler.com/2007/05/31/icky-thumping/ So much more than you wanted. Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:32:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Velvet Howler › Blog Archive › CONFLICT! Music's future http://velvethowler.com/2007/05/31/icky-thumping/comment-page-1/#comment-312 The Velvet Howler › Blog Archive › CONFLICT! Music's future Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:41:23 +0000 http://www.velvethowler.com/2007/05/31/icky-thumping/#comment-312 <p>[...] has received its fair share of press. While the power of collectives may be on the rise, the recent White Stripes leak and subsequent backlash from said band has highlighted an often overlooked sacrifice to collective [...]</p> […] has received its fair share of press. While the power of collectives may be on the rise, the recent White Stripes leak and subsequent backlash from said band has highlighted an often overlooked sacrifice to collective […]

]]> By: Bryan Klausmeyer http://velvethowler.com/2007/05/31/icky-thumping/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Bryan Klausmeyer Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:37:22 +0000 http://www.velvethowler.com/2007/05/31/icky-thumping/#comment-302 <p>I don't think it's really a question of capital gain. It's not like the White Stripes are really going to lose all that much money from some DJ in Chicago playing a few songs off of their albums. I see it as more of an issue of respecting the artist's intent. Since it's their creation, it's their decision as to when and how it should be released.</p> <p>It's hardly based on a universal moral or ethical principal, but obviously the DJ should've used common sense to know that releasing Icky Thump songs before the album has been released would've incited anger at the least, a huge lawsuit at the most. Her naive reaction either means she's incredibly stupid or using it to mask a more duplicitous intent: to get more viewers on her program (and therein lies the Neo-Marxist point that you brought up, essentially "following the money trail.")</p> I don’t think it’s really a question of capital gain. It’s not like the White Stripes are really going to lose all that much money from some DJ in Chicago playing a few songs off of their albums. I see it as more of an issue of respecting the artist’s intent. Since it’s their creation, it’s their decision as to when and how it should be released.

It’s hardly based on a universal moral or ethical principal, but obviously the DJ should’ve used common sense to know that releasing Icky Thump songs before the album has been released would’ve incited anger at the least, a huge lawsuit at the most. Her naive reaction either means she’s incredibly stupid or using it to mask a more duplicitous intent: to get more viewers on her program (and therein lies the Neo-Marxist point that you brought up, essentially “following the money trail.”)

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