Music heads across the nation have been paying close attention to the standoff between Taylor Swift and Spotify over artist royalties for streamed music.
Dave Grohl, though? He couldn't care less.
"Me personally? I don't f---ing care," he told the UK's Digital Spy. "That's just me, because I'm playing two nights at Wembley next summer.
"I want people to hear our music, I don't care if you pay $1 or f---ing $20 for it, just listen to the f---ing song. But I can understand how other people would object to that."
The Foo Fighters frontman is more concerned with live music and touring than the presentation of studio albums.
"You want people to f---ing listen to your music? Give them your music," Grohl said. "And then go play a show. They like hearing your music? They'll go see a show. To me it's that simple, and I think it used to work that way.
"When we were young and in really noisy, crappy punk rock bands there was no career opportunity and we loved doing it and people loved f---ing watching it and the delivery was completely face to face personal.
"That's what got people really excited about s---. Nowadays there's so much focus on technology that it doesn't really matter."
Tell us how you really feel, David.
Foo's new album Sonic Highways dropped Monday (Nov. 10), and it was decidedly underwhelming.
In a discussion about the album in Music Times' recent Junk Mail session, one writer commented that "the location/inspiration behind each song isn't very obvious. That's not necessarily a bad thing beside the fact that they are promoting this album as a sonic journey across America. I think that the hype is making listeners give the album credit for its concept, though it's essentially a mediocre record if judged outside of that context. Not that it's bad, but it didn't blow me away by any means, considering all the hype around it."
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