Oink Shut Down

The 'devious soul' behind Oink that is currently in jail right now is a 24 year old computer guru. I mean, this dude helped solidify a revolution of music distribution worldwide. Yes Oink was the first place leaked cds went. Yes Oink was incredibly efficient at dispersing said leaked cds. Does this success hint at anything?

The thing that the media always tells you is how down record sales are since Napster came along and how horrible file sharing is to the artistic community. I'm calling bullshit on that. The only thing that's 'down' is the thickness lining the asshole who already had billion-dollar real estate holding's pockets.
Artists do not make most of their money from the record companies. Not that it's the only source, but for a great example, dig Steve Albini's (he produced In Utero and the Pixies, kiddies) 'The Problem with Music'. Artists and bands basically have to deal with the record companies to whore themselves out because, up until lately, it took a huge, far-reaching corporation to get your stuff out of shithole, USA. Today, we have the internet, and anybody able to afford the bandwidth (read, cheap) and the skills (read, hard to come by) can put their stuff out on equal ground.
Has the recording industry ever considered that the reason that music sales are down so much is because they've sacrificed the very goods that they are hustling for a quick, not a lasting, buck? How many Jamaicans do I have to hear through an Autotune patch? How many 'punk' songs are really relevant in the way punk was in the 70's that arent about the same tired shit they bitched about 30 years ago? How much empathy can i really feel, once i've reached puberty, for a cartoon character engineered to suck the dollars out of my pocket? I mean, as much as kid will deny it, they love 'punk' music as it is today because their parents make them, by knowing what it's supposed to be about. Rock and roll broke in the 50's, everybody, it's nothing new.
There's a real reason record sales are down. Consider that it's pimping the virgins who don't really know what they're doing to a market who actually appreciates, beneath it all, talent and originality.
Oink might be down, and some forward thinking, bright young mind might be stifled by big $$$, but god damnit, Radiohead are going to make you fuckers realise, the music belongs to all of us, and you're not helping us anyway, so fuck off.

Now go buy a ticket to a band you marginally care for.

DJ/Rupture on Oink and file sharing