"Nah it’s just the friends of mine who hate trump (nearly all of them) and do music things would def be a bit existentially confused if Trump was the one who made it legal to sample shit that came out much more recently"

lmao ah i see yeah that makes sense

i think it makes sense to protect peoples music for some period of time - maybe like up to 20 years ideally - but i like the idea of it being legal to sample anything any time as long as you aren't asking for money for it. And then after 20 years you should be able to flip it and sell it.

And even setting aside all the bullshit sampling lawsuits and stuff record labels will never be properly incentivized to platform innovative new artists as long as they can just squat on the masters of classic rock/pop acts from the 70s and 80s and just rack up royalties for the next 80 years

the worst shit ever was when a judge li-ter-al-ly was like “the beat to ‘blurred lines’ is too similar to that one Marvin Gaye song that it sounds a little bit like” *bangs gavel*

Cuz who wants to be on the side of “blurred lines”

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah gyro i was just trollin but now i feel bad. this seems pretty good. only got through half an hour so far

Need to find that “public speech” I gave on the caretaker when I was 16. Chad!

Copyright laws in general are pretty stupid. I definitely beleive in protecting your property insofar as others not being able to just use it unaltered and claim it as their own, but not being able to mix it and yield something entirely new from it has always struck me as dumb

Not really. Imagine if you wrote some banger chorus and some jackoff soundcloud rapped verses and then it hit a billion views and you got nothing despite the entire popularity being your chorus.

Which is usually how those things play out.

yeah i'm for artists having at least some autonomy over their music. thats why i said 20 years. then it least if some shit soundcloud rapper flips your shit and raps on it and its a fucking complete bastardization of your music and you just can't stand for it you can at least make sure they don't make any money off of their shameful, detestable, despicable defilement of your work ... at least until you're done making money off of it

If anyone even remembers my shit enough to sample it 20 years after the fact I consider that a win regardless of anything else

you won't be saying that when some cringey white 14 year old raps on your beat without ur permission

Album Rating: 5.0

someone should slow this down by 10x and make it even longer

Cringey white 14 year olds deserve right too, bold claim but I stand by it

you won't stand by it any more when it happens

Album Rating: 3.5

don't have to wait 20 years to sample something if you aren't selling it and the compromise is you have to be at least 20 years old lol

Man I'd be so stoked if a white 14 yr old soundcloud rapper used one of my beats

"don't have to wait 20 years to sample something if you aren't selling it and the compromise is you have to be at least 20 years old lol"

perfect


"Man I'd be so stoked if a white 14 yr old soundcloud rapper used one of my beats"

this just means you have low self-esteem. be proud of your work!

I don't make beats but I imagine I'd be livid.

Hey y'all I just released a new album, 7 bucks a download on bandcamp.

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam. Give it a listen, pass me a few bucks if you like it!