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May 20, 2005
Coldplay: We Hate Making Money
Coldplay's Chris Martin doesn't want you to support the "corporate machine:"
But as Coldplay prepared for a concert in New York to promote their new album, called X&Y, Martin said: "I don't really care about EMI. I'm not really concerned about that. "I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world." Martin told reporters at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre that the band was uncomfortable that they sell so many albums they can affect a major corporation's stock price.Of course, if it weren't for shareholders willing to invest their money to keep music companies afloat, the members of Coldplay would still be working 9 to 5 jobs while playing at night in pubs."It's very strange for us that we spent 18 months in the studio just trying to make songs that make us feel a certain way and then suddenly become part of this corporate machine," Martin said backstage.
I'm sure a lot of Coldplay fans would be happy to oblige Martin by refusing to give money to the corporate machine by, er, "acquiring" the songs via other means.
Posted by slublog at May 20, 2005 08:08 AM
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