What is Mikes opinion on MP3s circulating on the Internet?
MP: I’m a big trading and bootleg fan and supporter, so I love trading stuff and bootlegs and MP3’s. I’m a big fan of that so I’d be a hypocrite to not support it when it applies to my own music. The only problem I have with MP3s is when they hit the ‘net, before a new album is released. It ruins the surprise for everybody. You know when you make an album, everybody looks forward to the release date. You want everybody to hear it at the same time and not ruin the surprise for everybody else or start spreading opinions it before anybody else had has a chance to form their own. That’s the only thing that bothers me. It bothers me from an artistic point of view that people get their surprises ruined before the release date, but I don’t think it bothers me on a commercial level. I don’t think it affects sales for a band like our’s. It was just I didn’t want the surprise ruined before the album came out.