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cool, but Metallica still sucks for what they did to napster.
FIRE BAAAD
Merch good
The Official Metallica Cock Ring
Beer goooood!
I know everyone who recognizes this super in-joke is like over 40. 🤣
Hey, I'm ALMOST 40.
This is basically the same thing.
Napster had a standing army? Neat!
Nah, we were mostly sitting while searching for obscene "weird al" songs
touche
I still hold a YUUUUGE grudge towards metallica for what they did to napster. I will die on this hill damn it.
100%
Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech) poster boys for the RIAA.
Napster was too big and too bold. They let themselves become synonymous with pirated music. There's no way capitalism would let that alone. If it wasn't Metallica, it would have to have been someone else.
On the upside, the Case was between Reload and St. Anger; their sales dropped by half and never recovered.
you don't have to clarify that. You really have to be a ham fisted fucking idiot to do the things compositionally that metallica does with the music they have to hand. Master of puppets should have made a recurring theme of the chromatic (ish) intro, and they throw it away, they bash away at the same shitty, caveman riff for eight fucking minutes. And Justice for all has a great intro, and it gradually degrades until basically nothing is left.
check out this song that uses a theme similar to master of puppets for a better way to use a similar musical idea https://youtu.be/FoGoEQ8DUDo?list=RDFoGoEQ8DUDo&t=18
Remind me of S3M's back in the 90's
s3m?
Scream Tracker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRznLXhu4pg&list=PLuprJ3W2ahOXgaIkH_Pf4De4JSFz6wo9l
This particular collection isn't exactly like the track, but the tracker sound feels about right for it
Every single artist did it to Napster, Metallica were just the front men. Tbf Napster wasnt going to survive legally, and if it had remained popular they would have gone to shit with some sort of payment system
Not even in the slightest. Metallica went far above and beyond everyone else hunting down little old ladies to sue.
99% of bands didn't make money from album sales, which is what makes all the hand wrangling over Spotify funny. Musicians idolise a world that never really existed.