Lars Ulrich speaks out.

[metalmariachi]

In this law suit era I found this to be refreshing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2qocBpM1U[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2qocBpM1U


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[Ghost Hip]

That's pretty cool, Metalliza is an amazing band, although I never really got into their music I always liked their attitude towards the world of music.

[pablo9000]

What a bunch of garbage.

Metallica are infamous for being the most litigious band in history, rabidly suing anyone who downloads any of their stuff. Stuck in the past, they are unable to find a new business model to use emerging trends in technology to their advantage, so they cry foul and go after their fan base for every last dime. Greedy multimillionaire bastards.

And their music is laughable, they haven't been relevant since "Kill 'Em All."

Evolve or die. Corporate rock still sucks .

[Ghost Hip]

I guess i don't know them as well as i thought?

[glitch]

Yeah, Metallica's drummer in particular (I think that's Lars?) is well-known as being the #1 stooge for the RIAA. He was one of the first musicians back in the 90's to start screaming "they're stealing from us!", while fully backed by the RIAA's lawyers. Later, after eventually getting flack from some of his own band mates even, he tried to backpedal and change his story to say that he was only *really* railing against anybody who might leak their unfinished tracks to the public. Luckily, the public didn't buy it.

If it were up to him, there would never have been anything such as digital downloads, and there certainly would never have been any competition from acts other than those sanctioned (and signed) by the major record labels. But the genie was already out of the bottle. Eventually, even Courtney Love was able to make fun of him in public.

They should just go crawl in a hole and die.

-- glitch.@#$%!

[the raytownian]

Yeah, Metallica's drummer in particular (I think that's Lars?) is well-known as being the #1 stooge for the RIAA. He was one of the first musicians back in the 90's to start screaming "they're stealing from us!", while fully backed by the RIAA's lawyers. Later, after eventually getting flack from some of his own band mates even, he tried to backpedal and change his story to say that he was only *really* railing against anybody who might leak their unfinished tracks to the public. Luckily, the public didn't buy it.

If it were up to him, there would never have been anything such as digital downloads, and there certainly would never have been any competition from acts other than those sanctioned (and signed) by the major record labels. But the genie was already out of the bottle. Eventually, even Courtney Love was able to make fun of him in public.

They should just go crawl in a hole and die.

-- glitch.@#$%!

Hahah, That reminds me of something I heard once...
I don't know the validity of this story as it's all just hearsay, but I seem to recall hearing (a few years ago-- I could be remembering the story incorrectly) of a lawsuit wherein Metallica were sueing a band for using some "signature" Metallica guitar tuning or some garbage like that...

[Ghost Hip]

So when now when my friend makes me listen to Metallica's St. Anger and I say "no," I can validly say because they're dicks? ....rather than the typical argument that the album is terrible.

If so, thank you.

[dronemachine]

I hate to be the hater,but I can only agree with pablo9000.I remember that
they used to say something like 'this song will destroy all the posers!' before they start the song-their early gigs.I mean,how lame is that...never did like them,anyway,too much macho BS.They became what they fought against and they love it.

[Antero]

Ulrich is a twat and a remarkably bad drummer. Metallica hasn't been a damn bit of good for nigh on twenty years. Their litigious nature makes them horrible people, they're shills for the RIAA (say, the Clarence Thomas or Sarah Palin of rock - they suck independently of anything else, and are used as stooges by the most objectionable sorts simply because of their demographic).

They can go fuck themselves.

[Lintybits]

Ulrich is a twat and a remarkably bad drummer. Metallica hasn't been a damn bit of good for nigh on twenty years. Their litigious nature makes them horrible people, they're shills for the RIAA (say, the Clarence Thomas or Sarah Palin of rock - they suck independently of anything else, and are used as stooges by the most objectionable sorts simply because of their demographic).

They can go fuck themselves.

I agree with most of this post but you have to keep in mind that this all started because someone stole some unfinished tunes and threw them up on teh intrawebz. I'm a big fan from way back and I feel it would have gone a lot differently if it had only been their old tunes online.

At this point they're so far into all the shit they hated when they were good that it's too late.

[Antero]

Man, they already tried suing over their old shit getting downloaded, and now they're getting pissy over a leak of the new stuff mostly because listener reaction to the new stuff has been "This may just be the worst music ever recorded." On top of everything, if they hadn't been such bastards about mp3s in the beginning it's possible their stuff wouldn't have been leaked with such transparent glee - I actually want to pirate all of their music just to spite them.

Old-ass rich-ass rockstar-ass egocentric bitches like them had best get their kids to explain to them how the internet works. The indie kids work the blogs and the review sites with free mp3s and now you can become internationally known as an indie artist, and as for the major label game... the only ones who know how to play it are Lil' Wayne, who sold a milli* of Tha Carter III in its first week simply by giving away tens of hours of music in the year prior, and Radiohead, who made a mint telling us we could pay what we wanted to.

*A milli a milli a milli a milli

[cosmonaut]

...
how
ghey..

can i say that out loud?