I’ll be the first to admit that I own all three Linkin Park albums, but man, lead singer Chester Bennington comes off as some sort of uneducated fool with these quotes regarding Linkin Park not wanting to sell singles online:
“We’re all going to have to adjust,? says Bennington. ?You know what I’m saying? Eventually everything is going to be purchased online. It’s just a matter of how you’re going to do it. You know? Do you sell albums by track or do you sell albums to download for one cost when you go in to download the music? Who knows? It’s not up to me, it’s up to the people to figure out the way they want to do it, and to do it in a way that’s not going to destroy the bands that they love.”
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“Bands like us that have commercial success by selling records are in a different place than the bands that are in a lower playing field, so it’s hard for us to really understand from our point of view,? Bennington says. ?But we do understand that there’s an issue there, and until everybody kind of figures it out and there’s more education on how to fix it, we’re not really going to run around and preach anything that we don’t know is going to work for certain.” (full story
It’s no so much the fact that they don’t want to sell singles online that comes off bad, but rather the overall grammer.
Let’s make a deal: Chester, you stop talking about digital music and I promise to never write a teen angst filled song. Sound good?