JERRY CANTRELL: Illegal Music Downloading Is "Disgusting"

August 16, 2002

Former ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell believes that illegal downloads are ultimately hurting, and not helping, professional musicians like himself.

"I don't really think the Internet is a great thing for music, and it certainly isn't for artists," Cantrell stated in a recent interview. "Maybe for artists that are up-and-coming or whatever that don't have a record deal to get your music out there it's great, but once you worked your whole damn life to create this business for yourself, to have people be able to buy one of your records and put it on the computer for free and everybody can just get that instead of your own record, that's revenue lost to you. And you put years and years of your life into this and that's something that's really disgusting to me. It's just a new-fangled way to get ripped off, and it seems this business is real conducive to that."

Cantrell added that he is also not a fan of unauthorized concert recordings.

"Being ripped...You can put it out however you want to, a butt-fuck is a butt-fuck, you know, and that's basically what you're getting (laughs)," the guitarist said. "It doesn't matter if whether you're lubed or not. That's basically the only difference. Sometimes you get kissed and lubed, other times you don't. You just bend over and take it. You fight back and take it back for yourself wherever you can, you know?"

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