13.05.2015 - 08:15 [ Techdirt ]

Pink Floyd‘s Roger Waters Declares Silicon Valley A ‚Gallery Of Rogues And Thieves‘

I‘ve been a Pink Floyd fan for most of the time I‘ve been alive, so it was rather disappointing to see band leader and professional misanthrope Roger Waters recently come down with a terrible case of „get the hell off of my lawn.“ Speaking to a reporter earlier this month, Waters, the man who once blasted oblivious, recording industry bean counters in „Have a Cigar,“ assailed Silicon Valley as a corrupt den of „rogues and thieves.“ Rogers also pined for a simpler age — one when musicians and artists were screwed more directly by their music label: