... did anyone else want to punch the little !"£# for what he said? "Laid our daemons to rest" what a crock of !"£#, lol.
I mean, well done to the guy for finally coming forward and saying downloading mp3's is perfectly fine but coming from Lars Ulrich of all people it just made want to punch the TV.
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I am the embodiement of Al Bundy. Throughout my 20s I collected records galore. Every dime I made for 10 years went towards buying punk, rock, thrash, death metal, soul and pop music etc. If it was upbeat I bought it. My basement's full of records.
Now I have a mortgage, a wife who's too sick to work, a job in which I am overworked and underpayed, a three year old, bills bills bills, food, gas, etc. etc. etc.
The radio doesn't play any of what it is that I like. In fact 98% of what is played on the radio sucks. I can't afford anything anymore, the only way I can find music that makes me happy is on the Internet.
If I can ever afford to, I will buy all the stuff that I downloaded that I especially like. But at this rate I may be 75 years old or so before that happens.
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It change my opinion of Lars. I always thought he was a massive twat but he doesn't seem that bad a guy. At least he's come to terms with how stupid that Napster debacle was and has moved forward.
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After all the fuss they made back then with Napster, now they're 'okay' with it?
WTF?!
RIP: Simen Hestnaes' credibility.
I was waiting for Dunn to confront him on that exact issue but he never did. I would have said something along the lines of whatever happened to that same Lars Ulrich that a few years ago sued 12 year old girls for downloading music?
Yeah it happened btw. Except I think it was britney spears.
Blame Metallica.
Napster was a kick in a balls because at the time I was around 15 years old, in high school, pissed off and a devout Metallica fan who had downloaded all their music; and also purchased a couple albums..
Then the whole napster fiasco.
I still like metallica there's no denying they are a metal institution but boy are they full of themselves. Anyways last month when they were in Vancouver, I snuck in with my friend and scored wicked seats 10 rows from the stage for absolutely nothing. Revenge is a dish best served cold :P
Well, i would love to go out and start buying my favourite metal C.D's. However i live in a country town in Australia. So our variety of Metal is mixed in with punk and emo crap. So of course i download music. I have brought a few C.D's and if i am ever pondering through one of the big cities i would buy some albums. Until then i have to listen to downloaded stuff.
"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger." The Joker
"He's a hypocritical wanker.
After all the fuss they made back then with Napster, now they're 'okay' with it?
WTF?!"
You said it yourself - all the fuss they made BACK THEN.
That was then. This is now. People learn from their mistakes. Metallica thought they were doing the right thing at the time, now they realise they went of a bit half-cocked and how badly managed it all was.
Lars is a completed and utter sellout wanker and so are Metallica. They don't exist for me beyond 1990 so anything they say or do today has no bearing on me at all.
In memory of Sam Peckinpah
How much more money can the guy have anyway? It's not liek they make good music anymore.
share"I am the embodiement of Al Bundy. Throughout my 20s I collected records galore. Every dime I made for 10 years went towards buying punk, rock, thrash, death metal, soul and pop music etc. If it was upbeat I bought it. My basement's full of records.
Now I have a mortgage, a wife who's too sick to work, a job in which I am overworked and underpayed, a three year old, bills bills bills, food, gas, etc. etc. etc.
The radio doesn't play any of what it is that I like. In fact 98% of what is played on the radio sucks. I can't afford anything anymore, the only way I can find music that makes me happy is on the Internet.
If I can ever afford to, I will buy all the stuff that I downloaded that I especially like. But at this rate I may be 75 years old or so before that happens."
hang in there bro. respect.
I have a bit of sympathy. Yes, Lars was something of a bag of dicks 10-12 years ago. But to be fair, music downloading was a brand new thing. NOBODY at the time could see the future or know how or if the music industry would or could change to rationally deal with it. The only comparable thing before it had been tape dubbing, but that was of limited equivalence since distribution of tapes couldn't really go all that far and since the sound quality of the dubs got progressively worse. By comparison, downloading was incredibly quick with great sound quality, and it meant that anybody could get pretty much anything, at any time, without paying. I'm not totally surprised the music industry overreacted.
It was good to hear him acknowledge the ways in which file sharing has benefited his band in particular, by exposing a few billion new potential fans to their music. Those few billion will spawn at least a few million real fans, many of whom will pay to attend Metallica's concerts and buy their t-shirts.
I say all this as somebody who has and still does download quite a bit of music for free. There are lots of BS ways for me to try to justify it, so I won't bother, except to say this: in so doing, I've become a fan of a number of bands that I probably wouldn't have otherwise. After all, I'm not likely to spend $12 at iTunes downloading an album from a band I've never heard, only to listen to it and decide it's crap. A number of the bands whose albums I've downloaded for free, I've since paid a lot of money to see in concert. The money they make from me buying show tickets is a lot more than they'd make if I'd never downloaded their music (potentially nothing) or if I'd bought a few of their albums.
I don't know why you're upset. He's always like a businessman instead of a musician.
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