In 2009 or so, I took advantage of my sustenance-service-industry life and headed to “the farm”in Minnesota for a couple of months to write a novel. When that didn’t go well, I wrote an album instead. Upon returning to Brooklyn, with an altered understanding of recording and considering music as a new pursuit, the financial state of the indie “rock stars” in the milieu hit differently than before. I started thinking more clearly about Napster, the status quo culture of not paying artists for their work and grew increasingly angry about all of it. Soon, I was writing confrontational essays on the subject that led to FREELOADING, a nonfiction book published around the world.
Below, you can listen to the music: recorded into my laptop mic with GarageBand.