No respect for anything. He wants it, he takes it.

They let you do it…..”

Donald J. ( ) Trump

Magats don’t really want to hear Lee Greenwood, Ted Nugent, or kid Rock at his rallies.

I mean we all now how Rush Limbaugh had to have Elton John play at his wedding and how Chris Christie is a big fan of Bruce Springsteen.

Rightwing music acts have limited appeal, much like the political party they support.

His 4th wedding by the way

Elton hardly needed the one million dollars, he received for doing it.

I remember that figure! Disgusting on EJ's part. And, the RW kooks still hate him. How ironic

I saw an article a few years back, that Elton would go into an antique store, and run up a tab of $400K in under an hour. He likes lots of nice things.

...to use someone's song, why would they want to use it knowing they're going to get backlash from it? I suppose to MAGAs it could further show the "us vs them" mentality they have.

Don't they have enough songs to choose from among the catalogs of Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Scott Baio, Skrewdriver...?

Amazon has royalty-free music of all genres.

Chump wants the adulation, he wants celebrities and performing artists. But alas ... none of them want him.

Allowing anyone to use it. The answer: Greed. They know they can make far more money selling the rights than retaining ownership and control over the music. Their complaints are just PR to their fans who don't know the legalities.

When they were barely more than kids, and were sick of living 10 to a 2 BDR apartment in the ghetto and mooching meals off groupies and strippers. It was sign here, and you get to live it up.

Maybe understand more about the industry yourself before trashing the artists that labels and publishers rip off as part of their standard operating procedure.

The groups selling their licenses are major groups. Venues are not using the music of nobodies. These groups are represented by sophisticated agents and lawyers. Sorry to bring some reality into this.

Maybe.

that licence is for parties, dances, ball games but isn't for Advertising which a campaign rally is by definition.

The venue has the license and can use it for any events at the venue. There is no legal basis for a complaint.

I know it’s difficult for transactional assholes like Steven Cheung to understand, but the artists do not want their names and their art associated with Donald Trump at any price.

It is the music business. If they want total control over authorized purchasing, they can self publish.

cannot exert any control when someone has paid for a music license that includes their music, but Cheung’s statement that these artists who are speaking out are only concerned about money implies that what they really want is to be paid for the use of their music.

The artists are being very clear that the only thing they want is for the Trump campaign to STOP using their music. And even if they can’t make it stop, they want to publicly express their displeasure at how their music is being used.

it will be reduced to using medieval Gregorian chants for its campaign songs.

of his shit.