Is the emotional and/or physical abuse of a human (or humans) justified if it results in highly regarded and...

Is the emotional and/or physical abuse of a human (or humans) justified if it results in highly regarded and influential art?

...um, no.

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no but who cares?

But without the abuse endured during the creation of Trout Mask Replica, we wouldn't have it as an artistic work, and as such, several albums and artists influenced by it simply would not exist.

this

Crapstain Queeffart was a talentless hack

this album didn't influence shit, it's just some pretentious fuckhead making "experimental tunes!!!" at the expense of other people's health.

It's fine if you dislike the album (most millennials do), but if you honestly believe it wasn't influential then you are extremely ignorant of 20th century music history.

Are you an Oasis fan, by chance?

>Matt Groening
>David Lynch
>John Lyndon
>John Frusciante
wew lad

Yes. In fact that and self-defense may be the only justification there is.

Absolutely
>didn't influence shit
It influenced loads of shitty noise rock Beefheart imitations, of course it was influential

no, but i don't think it's necessarily wrong to enjoy work that's resulted from said abuse

ugh. people like you go on this board.

come on, Beefheart didn't torture people or something

>Didn't pay bandmates
>Drugged them
>Fed them a miniscule amount of food

???

he's was just havin a laff

this. everyone here is a bunch of pussies

It was by utilitarian means that we were afforded the greatest piece of music of all times

>Didn't pay bandmates
he had no money

>Drugged them
false, they drugged themselves

>Fed them a miniscule amount of food
he had no money

This kind of complaint really saddens me desu
Like people in 2017 would condemn Kubrick for pushing Shelley Duvall to emotional heights and call it torture

Captain Beefheart once threw his guitar player into a dumpster. He also pushed his drummer down the stairs. He would also have band members put inside barrels and berated until they broke down crying.

why'd they get in the barrels if they were just going to cry like babies

baka

who cares? TMR is literally the best album ever made. it was well worth it