Following the arrest of Kevin Cogill - the man accused of leaking Guns N' Roses' Chinese democracy album online - earlier this week, illegal downloading is once again in the spotlight.

Not that he's one to rant about anything under the sun you understand, but Corey Taylor isn't called The Great Big Mouth for nothing. And, according to the Slipknot frontman, record companies only have themselves to blame for the rise in illegal downloading because "most of the bands they sign are shit."

"Why would you blame [people who download music]?," Taylor said to Kerrang! "Half the fucking albums that are out there are shit. I don't download, but at the same time, I don't buy new music 'cause it all sucks. Okay, there's a handful of bands that I buy, but other than that, I just buy old shit because old shit is good. Sorry!

"People wanna blame the decline of album sales on downloading, I think it's actually the record companies' fault," he added. "I think it's the quality of the product. If record companies would stop giving any fucking mook on the street with a fringe a record deal or their own record label, maybe you would sell more fucking albums, dipshits."