rant away buddy. meanwhile people will just keep on downloading no matter what you say or do.

wow..U2 had the same manager for a long time, Paul McGuinness... Thats the same manager they had back when they sued Negativland for that "U2" song


"These guys are from England and who gives a shiat!"

Actually, Bono starving would be pretty high on the irony meter.

I take great joy in the knowledge that people will make fun of these guys for centuries to come.

It looks like he could lose a few pounds.

I guess nobody's learned yet that if you're connected to a band in any way, shape or form, the stupidest thing you could possibly do is make negative reference to people downloading your music for free.

There's no better way to ensure even MORE people start ripping off your shiat.

You get to feel so guilty
Got so much for so little
Then you find that feeling
Just won't go away

HappyHarryHardOn:
"These guys are from England and who gives a shiat!"

WIN!

What's there to steal? When U2 and just about everyone else goes 4 or 5 years between albums, you're lucky anyone even remembers your band. Yeah, there's alot of bootleg trading out there (nothing else to do while you're waiting for NEW music), but bands need to realize that those trading boots are their biggest and best fans. They're the ones who just shelled out $50 for a re-release of The Joshua Tree just to get a DVD of a 20-year-old concert that they couldn't release as a $20 separate item - they had to rape their fans instead of rewarding them with the release of that concert after all these years. I wouldn't blame anyone for downloading that one of the net (put me on THAT jury!!!).

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

f



- sorry, I didn't see that one fall off

That's the letter you and the numeral two.

I was going to post but MTV's Cribs is on... got to go

Sounds like they're going to push for tariffs on internet traffic, under the assumption that it is being used to 'steal' their crappy product, exactly like the farking leeches did with CD/DVD media (in Canada anyways). I've burned maybe 2 music CDs in my entire life, back in high school before the even had the stupid tariffs.

Have they tariffed MP3 players yet? It wouldn't surprise me, since it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to fill a 40GB+ player at current prices.

Lo and behold, media prices still keep going down because the tech industry continuously offers a better product for less, unlike some industries that just whine and complain and offer up the same old shiat for the same old high prices. Then they whine and complain to the gov't who essentially legislates profit for these greedy farks.

They could all die tomorrow, there are tons of artists more than willing and capable to fill the void, many likely rejected because they aren't bland and commercial enough.

U2's manager apparently needs a new Bentley.

Boo. (Pause.) Hooo.

Why don't these turds embrace new technology? Is that so hard?

U2 doesn't pay their own freight - through some legal chicanery their income tax rate is 2%.

TWO.

/rules for thee but not for me

U2 made plenty of money before the big mp3 music industry meltdown, SO PHUQUE THE PHUQUE OFF.


Also, they have sucked for twenty years.
Please make it stop.

i feel so sorry for wealthy, self-important businessmen when people make magnetic copies of 0's and 1's.

and u2 sucks

TheSwissNavy: U2 doesn't pay their own freight - through some legal chicanery their income tax rate is 2%.

TWO.

/rules for thee but not for me

Ireland's some sort of tax haven--I know a couple of the guys in Def Leppard live in Ireland to avoid British taxes.

/shut up, Bono, you fat bastard

Marisyana: TheSwissNavy: U2 doesn't pay their own freight - through some legal chicanery their income tax rate is 2%.

TWO.

/rules for thee but not for me

Ireland's some sort of tax haven--I know a couple of the guys in Def Leppard live in Ireland to avoid British taxes.

/shut up, Bono, you fat bastard

Um, not that I'm a big U2 fan or anything, but aren't they Irish? Wouldn't it be logical for them to live in Ireland anyway?

In related news, U2 to re-release re-mastered copies of their first three CDs so you can re-buy them to replce the crappy sounding ones you already paid for.

In related news, U2 to re-release re-mastered copies of their first three CDs so you can re-buy them to replace the crappy sounding ones you already paid for.

Go die already, you farking dinosaur.