I hate Metallica
however, I think pirating anything is fucking lame. Artists, game developers, movie creators etc are putting time and money into creating a product and yet people feel it's ok to rip them off because the product isn't tangible.
If you enjoy their music, buy the album and support them. Although I thought Lars was a prick at the time of the Napster scandal, I still commend him for standing up to all the little cocks stealing his music. Anyone stupid enough to like Metallica should spend the 15$ and buy their CD and stop crying about it.
Bands who think it's, "just about the music," are still signed to major records(and as such are hypocrites, and pricks)... and all the shitty bands who claim to live by DIY ethics just suck too much to make it big.
oh and rockband is the gayest thing ever. Go buy a guitar, get the music from Metallica songs and play the real music.
it's called getting with the times. The bands that are succeeding are the ones who use the success of an album to tour and sell out shows for 80 bucks a seat.
No more sitting in a studio loaded off their ass to make all their money. Now is when they actually have to work for it.
The bands I like have NO trouble selling out shows. I went and saw The Cure a few months ago and their entire US tour was sold out.
You can bet they are making a shitload of money.
The internet used to cost users by the minute 15 years or so ago. Just because that used to be the case dosn't mean it will always be true.
Look at NIN and other bands. They sell their music online for half of what a cd costs and even give it away yet they still make money.
Times change. Adapt or die.
