Metallica, Linkin Park, RHCP vs. iTunes

[ghen]

Well if you were excited like me that the iTunes for windows has finally come out here's a sore point to scratch for a bit.. Apparently a few big name bands like Metallica, Linkin Park, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers are refusing to offer their albums on iTunes. Their reasoning is they don't want anyone downloading individual songs from their albums since the albums are somehow sacred as produced. Of course iTunes allows full album downloads, it would be silly any other way, but the going rate for full album vs. song downloads is about 47% for the albums. so 53% of the songs downloaded are individuals. This, to Metallica et al., is unacceptable.


Your comments?


If you want to read a long rant by yours truely on Metallica's website go here:
The reason Metallica won't get my money twice per album

P.S. I searched for this sort of topic and didn't find anything, I hope that means there really wasn't anything before

[Az]

I am about to break.

[Combat Ingrid]

I'm not the least surprised Metallica is involved in this BS

DEATH TO FALSE METAL!!!

[St Leo]

Right with you, Ingrid.
TRUE METAL FOREVER!

[Whaleboy]

I'm with you!! BOC!!

[BustaMike]

Linkin Park thinks there songs need to be seen together as an album. Every song they've ever made sounds exactly the same .

And goddamn I hate Lars Ulrich.

[self biased]

lord, i know i haven't been a very good christian.... but why did it have to be cliff? why couldn't it have been lars. you could have prevented all this...

[Combat Ingrid]

[ghen]

I see alot of hostility towards Metallica, and yet you fail to realize they do make good music (or I should say did, before St. Anger).. Their public lives are completely off base..

Hey, did anyone watch south park last night? It featured Lars' mansion where he was crying by the pool because he didn't get his gold plated in-pool shark bar because of piracy or something like that

[Provost Harrison]

[Az]

They did that?!!

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by ghen
I see alot of hostility towards Metallica, and yet you fail to realize they do make good music (or I should say did, before St. Anger).. Their public lives are completely off base..

Amen.

Though I liked St. Anger.

[ghen]

Too bad the only download of South Park ATM is in .rm format, I refuse to work with RealOne.. Otherwise, I'd have screenies of Lars crying

[self biased]

the cuts i heard off of st anger weren't too atrocious. but they're trying to cut rough edges into the sound, and if there's one thing that blond haired canadian *** (and i'm not talking about asher here. i have respect for him) bob rock can't do, is rough edges. the result is that st anger sounds god-awful campy. like the hardcore album that never really was.

[Sirotnikov]

I can't pray enough for the moment they wake up and drive a drumming stick through Bob Rock's empty head.

And while Lars is a very good drummer they need to ****ing put a mouth restrainer on him, and chain him to the drum sets. If there's any lesson to be learnt from the beatles - it's that drummers should be ugly and silent. And Lars is already damn ugly...