DAVE GROHL On Declining Album Sales: 'People Are Getting The Music Somehow'

According to The Pulse Of Radio, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl sat down with Entertainment Weekly to discuss the continuing decline of record sales. Grohl, who was named this year’s Record Store Day Ambassador, said that how fans get the music doesn’t matter as much to him as long as they keep coming to the shows, explaining, “We’re not selling as many records as we used to, but we’re selling out stadiums, because the people are getting the music somehow and they’re coming to the shows, and they’re singing every word. For me, that live interaction is what made me fall in love with music.”

Grohl held up the arrival of cassettes decades ago as another example of a format that was supposed to kill the music business, saying, “When cassettes became popular there were these bumper stickers everywhere that said ‘Home taping is killing the record industry.’ When digital downloading became the industry’s next biggest threat, it just totally echoed what happened when cassettes became popular. Like, ‘Wait a minute, the listener is in control? No!’ And to me, I was like, ‘Fuck yeah, man!'”

Grohl added that when he was growing up around Washington D.C., he and his friends would swap tapes of punk acts all the time, adding, “We might not have bought the record, but we went to every one of those shows.”

FOO FIGHTERS will give a special performance at the Record Connection in Niles, Ohio on Saturday to commemorate Record Store Day.

The band is releasing a new EP called “Songs From The Laundry Room” as a Record Store Day exclusive. It features early FOO FIGHTERS demos that Grohl recorded before the band’s first album, including the previously unreleased “Empty Handed”.

FOO FIGHTERS will kick off a major North American tour on July 4 in Washington D.C.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net