There's a big difference between Morrissey caring about royalties and him posting these angry little notes on TTY asking us to care, too. Unlike some people here, I have high hopes for the new album based on the good new songs we've heard. I'm pretty optimistic about his music right now. But I'm tired of hearing endless gripes from the Morrissey camp about low chart placements, bad marketing, lawsuits, royalties, and anything unrelated to the music.
With "Greatest Hits", you could see it coming a mile away: the CD was totally useless, it was going to tank, and Decca and anyone else in the vicinity would be blamed. The same thing is going to happen with "Years of Refusal", no matter how good the songs are-- because of his sense of entitlement he's going to bitch about the fact that the album will go in at #1 and drop off the face of the planet by the second week. The sales figures he wants just aren't there for him anymore.
And even if it's true that he's been screwed over by various people-- I'm sure he has been, and viciously-- there is no way I accept the constant message coming from him, which is that all his business woes are the fault of anyone and everyone except him. Whatever. He can pore over his accounts all day long as far as I care. I just don't want to hear about it because every time he posts this garbage to TTY the music recedes further and further into the background at a time when he might well be writing the best material since "Vauxhall and I".