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# TuneCore’s Jeff Price To Music Industry Gatekeepers: “Go Fuck Yourself”
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/tunecores-jeff-price-to-music-industry-gatekeepers-go-fuck-yourself/
- Published: 2011-04-26T11:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-04-26T11:55:00.000Z
- Description: (UPDATED) "To those people out there, the sitting board members of the RIAA and the sitting board members of A2IM and the sitting board members of Sound Exchange who have. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/04/tunecores-jeff-price-to-music-industry-gatekeepers-go-fuck-yourself.ht
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"To those people out there, the sitting **board members** of the **RIAA** and the sitting board members of **A2IM** and the sitting board members of **Sound Exchange** who have made public comments stating that music that we release is crap – that’s their word, not mine – and that **80 percent of it is crap** and it’s **cluttering the space**…When you go to **iTunes**, people search for it. If they find it, they buy it. **So, go fuck yourself**…**You’re no longer the gatekeeper**…"  "…You don’t get to say what has access. **Technology changed that,** and the general population of the world can say something like **Rebecca Black,** for better or for worse, has value. You know, we can say it doesn’t or it does, but the general population decided it is, so **it doesn’t really matter what we have to say.** They get to make the decision now." – **Jeff Price**, CEO TuneCore. Read the full interview at **[CMJ.com](http://www.cmj.com/the-feed/news/2011/04/qa-tunecore%E2%80%99s-jeff-price/?ref=hypebot.com)**.