Forget the bluetooth Mighty Mouse, today's huge news is that Metallica's catalog has been added to the iTunes Music Store [iTunes link]. You may remember how vehemently anti-download this band has been since the Napster days. Either the guys have mellowed a bit (isn't that what this movie was about?) or they've seen the dollar signs. Either way, their music is available today.To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.
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random said 10:50AM on 7-25-2006
They've seen the light...glimmering off the mighty dollar sign.
I thought they were anti-piracy as far as music downloading goes. This is different. The music you download is something you pay for and it's a DRM-protected format. Not that it stops the piraters from pirating...but this is a legitimate way to acquire their music.
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Thom said 10:51AM on 7-25-2006
Actually, Metallica has been download-friendly for some time now... They just tend to stick with live recordings. (LiveMetallica.com has been selling concert recordings for at least a few years.) Yeah, they would appear to have mellowed--in a recent magazine article, Lars was quoted as "watching YouTube a lot", and says that of the videos floating around of their new, unreleased song, "the side view is best." :P
I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I do think the whole Napster thing was brought on mostly because of an unfinished studio recording of "I Disappear" leaking out... I could imagine that freaking any band out a bit, people hearing your shit even before it's done.
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David said 11:01AM on 7-25-2006
If I remember right, Metallica has been available on some/all of the DRM-WMA stores for quite a while.
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Tony said 11:28AM on 7-25-2006
Metallica is anti *piracy*, not anti-download.
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Me said 11:31AM on 7-25-2006
I am still bitter from the Napster days. I buy 99% of my music at the ITMS but when it comes to Metallica I use BitTorrent.
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dvddesign said 11:48AM on 7-25-2006
Yeah, Metallica lost my dollar back in 1999, when they banned my Napster account for having my personal ripped and NOT shared Metallica library tip them off that I was trying to "share" it online.
Screw off guys. Go make your outdated and overproduced dollar elsewhere.
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Tim Kimberl said 12:08PM on 7-25-2006
Now this is one band where you can say the compression sucks on the iTunes songs. Just purchased enter sandman and it sounds like crap (quality wise).
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Owen Marmorek said 12:18PM on 7-25-2006
Now iTunes just needs Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and The Beatles.
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John from Buffalo said 1:38PM on 7-25-2006
Ya, I saw the posting this morning on iTunes when looking for my Ask a Ninja podcast (Bastd, update your podcast!)
I get enough from my local 103.3 Metallica-Edge sync-up ... 9@9 is actually Metallicrap at 9.
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Jordan said 1:49PM on 7-25-2006
lol, metallica lost my dollar in 1991 when they released 'the black album' and stopped playing real thrash metal. too bad '...and justice' was their last good album.
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yonatron said 1:50PM on 7-25-2006
Metallica lost my dollar in like '92 or '93, when their music stopped being any good.
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yonatron said 1:54PM on 7-25-2006
Ooh, Jordan, your comment appeared just as I was typing mine. Great minds an' all that, eh?
Wow, it was '91? I thought it was in my senior year of high school, but I'll take your word for it. 15 years of sucky music just flies by..
Anyway, I s'pose if any of the good albums are on iTMS, I'd consider buying them, since I bought 'em on cassette the first time around and my copies are long lost.. But probably I'll just rip a friend's CDs and use my money one someone who's not already rolling in it..
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ChipNSocal said 2:02PM on 7-25-2006
"Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire." - and it isn't just Metallica. How about Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Beatles, Garth Brooks, and some of the other major artists missing from iTunes.
I am glad to see Metallica on iTunes, but I already had most of their material.
iTunes is awesome, but if Apple wants to lock everyone in to the iPod and their own DRM, they should make it a priority to have a full selection.
Please.. .Led Zeppelin...AC/DC.
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Mike Johnston said 3:14PM on 7-25-2006
F#@$ Metallica and F#@$ Lars Ulrich!
Those ass-clowns forgot that their base was built on underground recordings and live performances. I wouldn't pay another penny to that bunch of hipycritical $#$% bags.
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Chris W. said 7:04PM on 7-25-2006
Sorry guys and gals. I happen to like Metallica. Their big mistakes and misguided crusades notwithstanding (not to mention the crap that is St. Anger), they're still one of the greatest metal bands in history, IMHO. And they're only human.
To Metallica: It's about f***ing time!
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VanillaSpice said 2:45AM on 7-26-2006
Sorry, Chris W, but Metallica's anti-download (NOT just anti-piracy) crusade was not a human mistake. It was them intentionally trying to hold onto the exhorbitant profits they made with traditional distribution, a profit that most bands never got to see any of (only the labels and the big guns like Metallica got that).
They also recognised that a shift to digital distribution meant, as a ratio, less sales for them compared to more sales for less-popular and indie artists. They tried to screw their less-successful colleagues!
Whether or not a person thinks they're one of the greatest bands in history (I agree), I urge anyone thinking of buying their music (iTMS or elsewhere) to remember that these guys tried to destroy the music industry.
Pirate Metallica. It is your gift to the music industry, but more importantly, it is your gift to those in the music industry who aren't multi-millionaires.
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mike said 8:43AM on 7-26-2006
oh please.. Beatles and LedZep on itunes? I have to ask why? Two bands that are lucky to have one BAD song between them (ok, maybe "Number 9"). These are the kind of bands where you buy the album and listen to the whole thing. You don't cherry pick the beatles and led zep.
So buy the cd, for less dough and better quality, and rip it to your ipod.
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spil said 2:06PM on 7-26-2006
That's great that they put their songs up for legal download...about 5 years too late. Too bad I already pirated their songs, but I DEFINATELY would have bought them anyway. **Shifty eyes, shifty eyes**
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adrian said 4:31AM on 7-27-2006
Seems like a fair punishment to me. After branding all downloaders as being one step away from international terrorism, they now get to have their finely crafted music encoded at an unlistenable 128k bitrate. That'll teach 'em ;-)
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