Last year MGMT sued the French President for using their biggest hit, Kids, in his election campaign without their permission. (The song was huge in France, they once performed it on French TV dressed as Puritans, wearing stockings and court shoes, surrounded by dancers and pug dogs.) “At the same time [Nicolas] Sarkozy was using the song, he was trying to pass legislation against illegal downloading,” VanWyngarden says.
“It just seemed a bit ironic to us.” They won an out-of-court settlement. “It was symbolic,” Goldwasser says. Both aged 27, MGMT are still, just, of the generation that grew up expecting to pay for music. “We definitely feel that sense of nostalgia, waiting for an album to come out for weeks, buying it on the day, picking it apart,” Goldwasser says. “The MP3 generation is losing that. They don’t respect the integrity of an album; they’ve got more of a postmodern way of looking at it — there’s all this stuff out there, all these different frameworks for organising your music, choosing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.” - MGMT on the Mp3 generation and how they are part of the generation that grew up expecting to pay for musique.
Picking apart a newly released album was indeed thee most organic and thrilling moments of my childhood.
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