Metallica Still Struggling With Embracing The Whole File Sharing Thing
from the no-interview-for-you! dept
While Metallica is claiming (this time around) they don't mind that the latest album is being shared online, someone forgot to tell the band's representatives. TorrentFreak notes that the band's European record label, Universal Music (in the US, the label is Warner Brothers Records) has canceled the band's scheduled interview with a Swedish newspaper after a reviewer for the paper reviewed a remixed version of the album that he admitted he had downloaded via The Pirate Bay.Universal's claim was that this is "totally unacceptable" seems destined to backfire. This is only going to provide a lot more attention to the fact that there's a different remix of the album available online that many people find better than the official version. Plenty of other artists like and encourage others to remix their music, because it tends to get fans much more involved with the music and can help attract new fans while making existing fans more connected to the band. For all of Metallica's talk of really embracing online fandom this time around, it keeps showing that it puts up roadblocks all around, rather than really connecting with the fans.
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Make up your mind Metallica
I'm not saying Metallica was the sole maker of *IAA but certainly were big supporters. I haven't bought any album since Black and don't intend to, as they don't have the same sound anymore.
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Maybe they should take a lesson from the Grateful Dead. For them it was all about the music and having people hear it, no matter how they heard it. So the big question is...Who owns the music? The band? or the record companies?
Maybe with all the fame that Metallica has gotten over the years, they need to start taking control of their own music and let the people get it anyway they can, and telling the music company to shove it.
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http://torrentfreak.com/metallica-interview-canceled-after-pirate-bay-row-080914/
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even remixed...
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Strain at a gnat to swallow a fly...
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What
Metallica huh.... Oh the guys that finally figured out that embracing the movement actually makes them more money then going against it.
good luck on getting me to ever listen to any of their music again.....
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Metallica’s Death Magnetic is on pace to sell about 500,000 copies in the U.S. despite its release late in the week last Friday. Globally, the album is already dominating charts ...
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They just need to go away!
They have been downhill since the Black Album anyway I wont even download them for free anymore!!
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I guess some people love their grudges and tantrums too much.
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Grudge? Tantrum? Revenge?
Does that mean that their new album sucks? No.
But they DO suck as individuals and I wont support them. They are in it for the money not to play music. For them to make as much money and get as much popularity as they do- there is no excuse for such spoiled brat behavior. So go ahead and scream to the rooftops about how old Metallica is back.. blah blah blah. Just dont come crying when the music industry collapses from bands like these that care more about money than they do melody.
(Hint: has been happening already)
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