My music is not my own.
Posted on 12 Mar 2012
I can’t recall what initially convinced me to open license the music I make. I create songs which are meant to be enjoyed and used; this includes having it married to other amateur, personal creations. Once my music is purchased I have released control over how and when it is played. Perhaps it is playing at a strip club or Rush Limbaugh’s birthday bash at Rick Perry’s Niggerhead Ranch. Fred Phelps’ kids apparently love Mumford & Sons—how disgusting to have your music encouraging a team of professional gay-bashers. I briefly considered adding this to The Opiate Mass masthead: “If you hate gays, Arabs, immigrants, atheists, please do not buy our records,” but that would have precluded me a few years back. By nature, art is generous.
From what I can tell, this kid is not a gay-basher (as good a music video for this song as we ever could have done).
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