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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're conflating the art with the artist.  I guess you think art should be didactic?  People still love to view Gauguin's work and he slept with teenage girls.  Despite his abhorrent tendencies, MJ's music is not going away, because his actual WORK and musical legacy was brilliant. [/quote]

Art cannot be separate from the artist. 
And yes, I don't like Gauguin at all, and always remind myself not to set any people I don't know personally on a pedestal.

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So you cannot separate the art from the artist and now you cannot separate the listener from the artist either.  You consider me complicit when I listen to Billie Jean or Smooth Criminal.[/quote]

Yes, you understand me correctly. You are indeed complicit.
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I'm complicit in child abuse because I listen to a song.

Umm, no.  [/quote]

If you are streaming these songs, every time you listen you give money to his estate, which has denied he ever did anything wrong and has vilified his victims.

The only way you're not complicit is if you confine your listening to vinyl, CDs, and downloaded music -- formats that don't pay royalties out on every listen. [/quote]

There is no child abuse happening or being financially supported when I stream MJ.

Don't listen if you don't want to.  I'm not a child abuser if I do.  [/quote]

You're financially supporting people who excuse child abuse. If listening to a great song is worth that for you, fine, but it's not worth it for me. There's a lot of great music out there that doesn't involve funneling money to people like the Jackson family. [/quote]

There are many artists with questionable lives.  Many.  [/quote]

Yes, and for those artists whose conduct has crossed a line for me, I don't stream their music. If I want to listen to it, I do so on vinyl. [/quote]

But you still listen to the music. [/quote]

My issue was never with listening to the music -- it was with giving money to his estate. [/quote]

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