“I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb,” he said at a recent Grammy Museum seminar, Reuters reports. “It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.”

Mellencamp isn’t just railing against the internet when it comes to people downloading music without paying; he’s not a fan of digital sound quality. Case in point: a remastered Beatles song he listened to on an iPod. “You could barely even recognize it as the same song,” he said. “You could tell it was those guys singing, but the warmth and quality of what the artist intended for us to hear was so vastly different.”