Wh- What? Metallica in iTunes!

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 ;-)

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**

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.

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.

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!

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.

"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.

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..

Metallica lost my dollar in like '92 or '93, when their music stopped being any good.

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.