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In times of Google, everyone has to review their marketing strategies.
What about in Metallicas´ site has the option to download their musics for free? Their fan´s will not pirate more their albums (it will not have any reason for that anymore!) It will increase much more the traffic and the convertion to others products of the band (set a e-commerce page in the site!), like t-shirts, ticket to shows, books, dvd´s, etc...

 Right on. In a world that exists far far away. Where glass houses are built high on hills with black Mercedes and white marble pools in 30 acre backyards, hypocriticallica rocks on. Not even bothering to write songs anymore, they have become content to trade riff tapes back and forth and then when in studio fit the riffs together in a disjointed manner. Sorry folks, I was one of the masses back in the day who listened and even learned all the songs and would crank my stereo through the roof while playing my gibson guitar through my marshall amp along to Master of Pupets, Ride the Lightning, Kill 'em All. Hell I even had the little known "Creeping Death" record. Then along came And Justice for All ... and I thought wow - they have grown. I was happy with the dierection they were taking. It was new - but still pretty damn heavy. Then along came the "Black" album - wow whole new sound and style. Not exactly Metallica anymore but ok. Good music. Ok .

Then on MTV one day L. U. and J. H. were asked a question about if they thought the new style of music and new sound they had would alienate there fan base. J. H. spoke up and said "we don't need them anymore." L.U. spoke up with "We are getting new fans every day with our new sound." Right there I knew they lost the music and the vision. They caught sight of the all mighty dollar. As a musician I know it's not all about the music, but in that same way - it's not all about the money either. When it is, you nolonger care about the product. Let's face it. If this new album didn't have th name Metallica on it - do you think it would sell or even get air play? It is a painful disjointed mess. But it does have hints of old school Metallica, it's just on a riff here and a riff there basis.

They aren't and haven't had my money in a long time. the last Album I bought from Metallica was the "Black" album. I have never downloaded any of there music. I never will. I have however re-purchased the Master of Pupets and Ride the Lighting albums. They keep getting "borrowed" from me and never returned. That is just a testament to how good they "were".

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