I’ve been in bands before with guys that I didn’t see eye to eye with. Some dudes smoke dope, some don’t, some guys believe in religion, some don’t. It can be hard to face the issues that you care about if not everybody’s on the same page. I feel like I made the mistake of limiting myself as far as the subjects we wrote about, just out of respect for my bandmates or whatever – but I regret it now. That’s why I’m giving you props for staying true to yourself… because fuck it, you can’t please everybody anyway.

Been listening to GF since about ’01, keep it up, and thanks for not being too cool to actually talk to your fans.

Deal. Can we get rid of limewire, ares, and all the rest of the file sharing sites now?

I totally approve everything you say, and my arms fell to the ground when I read what your own brother told you. Talk about being assimilated by the machine…he probably feels the same way you do but doesn’t have the courage to speak up because he’s probably afraid to lose everything he gained over the years…this is just a wild guess & my opinion and can’t really judge him because I don’t know him!

A thing that makes me laugh really hard is the bunch of artist out there that bashes on the internet about how its evil and deprives them of revenues…well they are fucking hypocrites…they are the instigator of this movement, by copying tapes & passing them to their friends. I personally download everything…why, because I hate spending 25$ or 30$ on a cd before even hearing it, so if I like what I hear you can be sure that I will go & buy the cd or vynil or whatever other format it is released out. I will support your hard work, and if I don’t like it…well tough luck & better luck next time. It’s the same thing for everything…when you buy a car you test drive it, you don’t just pay & go…you try out your clothes before buying them. There would be no reason to download an album if every band put out the entire album available for streaming in low bit-rate via their website, myspace, imeem or whatever other medium. People could on the spot know if the like it or not and could send the link to their friends instead of downloading & passing the riped cd to their friends. Of course there will always be people who will always download a higher bit-rate version and will never go out and buy the cd, but this is like prostitution & organised crime no matter how hard you try & fight it, it will always remain, but one can do damage control by educating are youth about the problem instead of bashing on them…which in my opinion will only make mather worse.

I could go on all day about this issue, but I tried to sum it all up in a “brief” way, quite hard for a deep & complex matter like this.

P.S

Andre is my real name & the link is my real myspace so if you don’t like what I wrote well fuck you and send me your hate mail. I have the courage of my opinion & words so if I can say it I can take it equally :-). For the record my blabbermouth name is Squee.. My real name was already taken! To all the fuckers on BM that brags about first post, go fuck yourselves. You should get instant life ban.

I didn’t like GF until I heard Constitution Of Treason. I bought it the next day.

Stay metal.

Just kidding. Wanted to make u -er, you – feel at home.

But I’m nitpicking. That wasn’t the focus of your blog entry.

I noticed that there aren’t any ignorant shit heads posting any comments on here about how your band sucks because you somehow fall into a category they’re told they’re not supposed to like. Or the same shit heads trying to make you feel stupid for being intelligent because you used a few big words in your post.

I completely agree with you on the downloading too. If you don’t know what it sounds like, why the fuck would you buy the CD? It’s as simple as that. Music downloading is nothing more than radio on demand.

Now burning entire albums, not listening to them, and then selling them… I could go without that.

Good post all around.

Fuck censorship.

I really don’t know what else to say; you’ve hit the nail on the head with this blog post.

Keep it up; \m/