Iggy Pop delivering his Peel Lecture, 2014. Photo: BBC Radio
Recently Iggy Pop delivered a lecture on BBC Radio called 'Free Music in a Capitalist Society', in which he lambasted record companies for screwing musicians into penury. If the "computer Putins" had their way, he argued, he'd be tending bars between sets to support himself.
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