RollingStone.com: News: Tom Petty Is Pissed

"The man who told the world "I Won't Back Down," "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Don't Come Around Here No More" doesn't need any assertiveness-training course. Tom Petty's determined, sometimes defiant attitude has collided with the music business throughout the years. For instance, in 1982 Petty recorded Hard Promises with the Heartbreakers, only to find that his then-record company had plans to use his name to initiate a new, higher $9.98 list price for albums. Petty withheld the tapes and threatened to retitle his record $8.98 in protest. "

Tom Petty talks to Rolling Stone about some of the stupidity going on in the music industry of today.  His complaints, as summarized by Rolling Stone in the article, follow:

• Radio is not even worth listening to
• All anyone thinks about is money
• It's ridiculous to make people pay twenty dollars for a CD
• Only a complete greedhead would charge $150 for a concert ticket
• Record labels don't care about artists
• Filthy lyrics make me sick
• Only a sick culture would sexualize young girls
• Why are we rewarding people for being rich?
• And TV is worse
• A lot of artists are as greedy as the industry