Gene Simmons hates you. In a recent interview with Yahoo! , he lashes out at "college kids" for ruining the music industry. The man most responsible for all the cynical merchandising and greedy cash-ins that have come to be associated with KISS seems to think that there's no way for musicians to be appreciated unless their art is owned by a large corporation and the proceeds are filtered back to them in the form of pennies-on-copies royalties. Money quote:

The record industry doesn't have a fucking clue how to make money. It's only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there's no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. How can you pick on them? They've got freckles. That's a crook. He may as well be wearing a bandit's mask. It's hard to say when a man most famous for having a long tongue and a fantastic closet full of spiked leather has lost touch with reality, but this might be the moment right here. I also like this little nugget:

The only reason why gold is expensive is because we all agree that it is. There's no real use for it, except we all agree and abide by the idea that gold costs a certain amount per ounce. As soon as you give people the choice to deviate from it, you have chaos and anarchy. And that's what going on.

If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that chaos and anarchy are the antithesis of rock and roll. 

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