“The record labels killed it,” he told the Times. “They killed it by insisting on charging two to three times as much for the high-res files as for MP3s. Why would anybody pay three times as much?”
Considering he secured more than $6 million on Kickstarter and $7.2 million from Crowdfunder by suggesting that listeners should do just that, this seems like a fairly outrageous question.
“The record companies, by charging three times as much for hi-res music as they charge for regular music, they’ve killed hi-res music,” he continued. “It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.”
There might be something dumber. Like, say, a high-res portable music player that looks like a bar of Toblerone made by a team that trades in misinformation about digital music.