Here and follow-up at Alyssa Rosenbeg's Thinkprogress blog.

Playing (or providing content generally) for "exposure" is always a contentious issue, and Steve Albini is a hardcore indie and clearly feels strongly about this. But i agree with him here. There are always going to be desperate people and others shouldn't take advantage of that (it's why we have minimum wage laws), so i'm glad to see Palmer coming around.