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Adam Ant is either saying this to get attention and press coverage, or he just so out of touch with reality and the marketplace. I sure hope he doesn’t have a manager who is advising him that this is the way to reach your fans and sell albums.<\/p>\n
I love vinyl, I have 1000s of vinyl albums at home, but I would never encourage or expect that is the format for listening to music. Who under the age of say 25 has a turntable? And suppose you did listen to the new Adam Ant album on a turntable and loved it, how do you take it with you? Find a tape deck, connect to your turntable, find a blank cassette tape and record a copy. Then find a old Walkman and you are set. Of course the quality of that tape in a old Walkman is probably worse than your iPod or mobile phone.<\/p>\n
I love this quote, “…encourages children to sit in a room, not move, look at a screen and get fat,…” does he realize that a iPod actually encourages you to get up and move while listening to music.<\/p>\n
Adam you should join Prince, Stevie Nicks, Jon Bon Jovi and a few other out of touch musicians in forming your own private island that bans the internet and any technology.<\/p>\n
British pop star Adam Ant is waging war on the digital age, insisting the Internet is turning the human race into computer-obsessed “geeks”.<\/p>\n
The singer is planning to release his first album for 16 years in 2011 and he is determined not to make it available for downloading online.<\/p>\n
Ant – real name Stuart Goddard – is also urging fans to shun iPods in favour of more “traditional” ways of listening to music, because he’s convinced the Internet isn’t cool.<\/p>\n
He tells Music-News.com, “I am deliberately being provocative by saying I won’t do downloads. This record isn’t for earplugs and a mobile phone. I don’t care about that.<\/p>\n
“If you haven’t got a stereo, I think if you have got kids you owe it to them to play them a vinyl disc in their lifetime because once they hear that and they get into it they will, I think, never get over that experience. It’s such a wonderful experience.<\/p>\n
“The traditional is definitely coming back. And I don’t like the people that invented the Internet. I think if you look at them they are geeks and they love it. They want us all to be Trekkies (Star Trek fans), and I think the Trekkie mentality is just abhorrent and it encourages children to sit in a room, not move, look at a screen and get fat, and that’s exactly what’s happening and nobody cares. I do. I’ve got a daughter, so I don’t want that. I don’t want her to be looking at an iPad, I want her to go to the library, get a book, order it, take it home, read it, cherish it, take it back. And that’s tradition. (It’s the) same with music. I want real records, real people. Plug in and play it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n