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Dave Grohl doesn’t fucking care what you pay for his music

By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 14 November 2014

Like every musician being interviewed this week, Dave Grohl has been asked what he thinks about Taylor Swift pulling her music down from Spotify. In Grohl’s case, it was Digital Spy asking the obvious question, how do you feel about people getting your music for free on the streaming platforms?

“Me personally? I don’t fucking care”, Grohl announced. “That’s just me, because I’m playing two nights at Wembley next summer”. Oh, ladidah, look at David with his big stadium-filling riffs.

“I want people to hear our music, I don’t care if you pay $1 or fucking $20 for it, just listen to the fucking song”, he continued, before realising he possibly sounded like a bit of an arse and adding: “But I can understand how other people would object to that”.

He went on to refute Swift’s claim that all recorded music is art with an inherent monetary value, which is good because that’s nonsense. Next you’ll see graffiti artists standing next to their latest tag collecting change in a bucket.

He continued: “You want people to fucking listen to your music? Give them your music. 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 fucking watching it and the delivery was completely face-to-face personal. Nowadays there’s so much focus on technology that it doesn’t really matter”.

Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters are playing two nights at Wembley Stadium next summer, don’t you know.