Metallica… you were cool… in the early 90’s
This post was published 3 years 3 months 20 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Well looky what we have here… Metallica joining the iTunes music stores? Lars must need a new Ferarri.
Metallica placed itself at the center of the controversy surrounding the dawn of digital music in 2000, when Ulrich appeared at a Redwood City, California, courthouse bearing a list of the names of tens of thousands of Napster users.
Well turns out after all that complaining they did, the money was just to much of a lust to hold out any longer. Welcome back Lars… in celebration I will be downloading their entire Discography from BitTorrent, then I’ll delete all the albums after the black album ;)
Metallica’s move to digital sales, and a move by Detroit rocker Bob Seger earlier this month, leaves only a few holdouts, most notably the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead. The Beatles and its Apple Corps record company have engaged in a long standoff with Apple over the use of the apple logo and Apple’s ability to sell music. A British court ruled in favor of Apple in that dispute in May.
Pfft…. like there is a RadioHead fan out there that hasn’t already downloaded all their albums anyway!
iTunes? Nah it’s cool man, I already have all their CDs illegally downloaded. I don’t even listen to them, I just have them out of spite.
Early 90’s? You’re too kind. They stopped being cool about 1988-89. When did “…And Justice for All” come out? Lars is a putz.
Their last album tanked, and I saw a special on the making, where they did all this emotional therapy $%^$# during it… Pantera was watching it going “What a bunch of pussies…”
I used to go sell Napster T-Shirts in front of thier conerts back in the day. Made a killing!
Metallica missed the boat on this one. There is something timeless about the Stones, as shocking as it is that Keith Richards wakes up in the morning much less gets on a stage and strums the guitar. I saw them on stage in the early nineties opening for Guns n’ Roses, and even though the kids who wore Metallica shirts smelled bad and scared me, they rocked. Then they became loser lightning rods for the “fight” against downloads (isn’t it the same as radio, keeping people interested in old dated crap?) . Ahh….well.