U2 Criticized By Pink Floyd!

U2’s choice to release their new album for free through Apple’s iTunes has drawn its fair share of criticism from The Black Keys drummer, Thom Yorke Tool and now U2 Criticized By Pink Floyd!

CelebNMusic247.com reports on the backlash from rock music greats who continue to SLAM U2 for dropping their album for free on iTunes.

Bono released an official apology for the FORCED iTunes giveaway of Songs of Innocence album on Rolling Stone, saying:

“Oops. I’m sorry about that,”

“I had this beautiful idea and we got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing: [a] drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn’t be heard. There’s a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.”

“If you don’t want it, delete it. Here’s the link.”

Even though Bono apologized fellow musicians and peers have continued to SLAM U2’s frontman for his stunt claiming that the band’s release method has “devalued” not just U2’s catalog, but music as a whole.

Now, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has joined in on the U2 BASHING saying:

U2’s release method “does devalue things.”

“Music has been horribly devalued by being given away. It’s funny they didn’t sense some of that. It’s been the big story of the 21st century, music being de-valued.”

But the backlash hasn’t stopped there, The Black Keys’ drummer Patrick Carney shared a similar sentiment in an interview with the Seattle Times.

Carney states:

U2 “devalued their music completely…sends a huge mixed message to bands … that are just struggling to get by. I think that they were thinking it’s super generous of them to do something like that.”

Currently, Bone is hopeful to win back the music community with his next project with Apple. The band recently told TIME that they’re working on a new digital music format “so irresistibly exciting to music fans that it will tempt them again into buying music—whole albums as well as individual tracks.”

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