Great job Billy! Keep the music coming and I am impressed with your courage in this situation.

Will not additional cost for playing these tunes merely add one more insurmountable hurdle for small time radio stations? The big corporate stations all play the same 50 songs already, then when corporate radio wishes to make money off a new artist, they give them circulation and attention. I believe that if new royalties go into effect, they should only affect either shows with large syndication or big corporate radio. The little stations should not be forced to pay as well. Capitalism does not work without small business having a chance to succeed.

He needs his ”..come clap your hands hat”, then they’d g’damn listen!

the Pumpkins but seriously Billy. Are you broke as a joke or what?

good point A Minnesotan. I agree. Furthermore, artists should learn to write their own songs.They complain about being puppets to big labels (which is another issue), but they should not come to those labels with marionette strings attached. Corgan shouldnt have a prob since he wrote the SP songs.

on the flip side, you take away more money from the big labels, they will have less money for payola to push their swill to big radio. bottom line, the band had better be good and be good live or they will always blame big radio or big labels for their starving bellies. labels are evil, but if you cant take the heat, get out of the kitchen

James Iha should of went instead of Billy Corgan because Billy does get paid everytime a pumpkins song is on the radio because he is the songwriter and only the songwriter gets royalties

Why should the record labels receive any more money? They already make billions of dollars on the backs of artists.

Artists create the music, the public overpays for it, and corporations collect billions. What planet are we on again?

Looks like it’s time for a shave, William.

So terrestrial radio will need to cram in even more commercials to foot the bills? If it costs money to play the music only the big-name bands will get air time. Great news for already established bands I suppose but it will ruin the chances for new bands to get heard. Satellite radio will just fold up altogether…

Someone needs to go testify what a joke the Pumpkins annversary tour was. Billy needs to give back everyone their 60 bucks, because if he respected enough to represent the industry in Washington, he should have enough sense to not screw fans by having 20 minute kazoo solos to end a show. Hypocrit.

Rollingstone’s quasi hatred of Corgan is something to behold. They can’t go one article without being condesending. I just hope Satelite Radio can offer something different. The product is soooo much better, yet it is failing. Billy is onto something with people benefiting from the old model.

who’s b0lly?

Why should Iha get royalties? He didn’t write the songs or perform on the albums. Billy always erased his tracks and re-did them himself. Which is probably a good thing, James Iha sucks, just listen to his solo crap.

it’s the way this nation has been conditioned. things are slowly being taken away from us, it’s a cycle of controlling what we can and can’t hear, we’re ever evolving and declining.

Shame Zappa’s not still alive. He was always good at handling these Congressional thingies…

A Minnesotan – The small time stations were already doomed as soon as the ownership regs were relaxed.

Beef Supreme – Satelite radio already pays the artist royalties so it won’t affect them.

Big stations should pay, little ones shouldn’t

I think that this would provide a great opportunity to remind the artistic community that their winning favorable legislation and support from Congress comes with the duel expectation that they show more discretion in the types of content that they put out. They should be reminded that there is no place in a civilized and advanced society like the United States for art that would exploit young people or adults. They should be reminded that if they seek altruism from Congress they must not as they so often do ridicule and shun the concerns Congress expresses that their content is irresponsible and doing damage to society. Too often artists laugh when they are told that psychiatrists agree that their art oftentimes has a damaging effect and when they refuse to isolate the artists who would use their podiums for dishonest ends. Why should Congress reward these artists who drive children into depression and sometimes suicide by taking advantage of them be rewarded with more money? You are just giving them the opportunity to gather more ammunition to continue doing just that, which they surely will do. It is often said that their is a Dionysian impulse and an apollonian impulse in art, and I think oftentimes artists are expected to not show the same amount of restraint that a Congressperson for example would be expected to show. Bollocks! I for one say that Congress should exercise it’s powers in much the same way they would when sanctioning another country. It should be made clear that until they are willing to show more responsibility than they have been, they will not be rewarded with any legislation that will help to put another dime in their pockets.

“Ours is a business that always begins with the brilliance of
the artists. Contrary to long-held myths, it does take money to create new music.”

- Any musician who puts brilliance and artist in the same sentence should be stripped of all his personal belongings and thrown on his ass. And saying it takes money to create new music is just an insult to music and all the young artists out there who are making “new” music whithout a dollar in their pocket. Corgan is just old and can no longer speak for the younger generation.

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