  artist: kiss date: 01/17/2014 category: entertainment I like
this voted: 169 Never afraid to express his opinion, KISS
bassist Gene Simmons scolded illegal downloaders as the main
reason for the music's decline.  Sharing a firm stance in the
new Metal Hammer issue, Gene said, "I still think [downloading]
is a crime. The sad part is that the fans are the ones who are
killing the thing they love: great music."  Working up a
tantrum, Simmons continued, "For f--k's sake, you're not giving
the next great band a chance. How much have we lost through
illegal downloading? It's certainly millions. I don't think it's
tens of millions, but it's certainly millions. But so much of
what we do with the licensing and the merchandising and all that
... we do alright!"  Gene had the rock community pretty stirred
up last year, calling Nirvana's Kurt Cobain unworthy of a rock
icon title, pointing out multiple times that rock music had
become a "pale shadow of itself" ever since 1983. "There won't
be another Beatles or another