Adam Ant attacks audiophile adopters

Eighties pop star Adam Ant is waging war on the digital age, insisting the internet is turning the human race into computer-obsessed "geeks".

The singer is planning to release his first album for 16 years in 2011 and he is determined not to make it available for downloading online.

The singer - real name Stuart Goddard - is also urging fans to shun iPods in favour of more "traditional" ways of listening to music, because he's convinced the internet isn't cool.

He tells Music-News.com, "I am deliberately being provocative by saying I won't do downloads. This record isn't for earplugs and a mobile phone. I don't care about that.

"If you haven't got a stereo, I think if you have got kids you owe it to them to play them a vinyl disc in their lifetime because once they hear that and they get into it they will, I think, never get over that experience. It's such a wonderful experience.

"The traditional is definitely coming back. And I don't like the people that invented the internet. I think if you look at them they are geeks and they love it. They want us all to be Trekkies (Star Trek fans), and I think the Trekkie mentality is just abhorrent and it encourages children to sit in a room, not move, look at a screen and get fat, and that's exactly what's happening and nobody cares. I do. I've got a daughter, so I don't want that. I don't want her to be looking at an iPad, I want her to go to the library, get a book, order it, take it home, read it, cherish it, take it back. And that's tradition. (It's the) same with music. I want real records, real people. Plug in and play it."

-AAP