News Metallica plans to go Radiohead

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04/29/metallica-plans-to-go-radiohead/1

Lars Ulrich is apparently planning a Radiohead-style digital release for Metallica's first album after the end of their contract with Warner Music Group.

 

gimmie some flac metaillica goodness anyday

 

they killed napster, and they suck

 

Wow that's great news, that'll....

LOL, sorry, I can't keep a straight face. The only reason Metallica want to give away their album for free is that, chances are, it'll be so excruitiatingly crap no-one would pay money for it.

 

hell looks like they are try warner music which is only a good thing really

 

It's. Just. Noise.

 

Bauul hit the (albeit massive) nail on the head.

Although, who'd even want St. Anger free? And in high quality? I can bang a biscuit tin with a stick and get the same quality and I don't even have to waste any bandwidth to do it.

 

LOL! That's exactly what I starting saying..

Yep, if it was the old Metallica, (RTL, MOP, K'EA, etc) then sure -- but they went "pop" a long time ago and Ulrich is just a ***** now. They saw the entire record company business model falling apart and decided to change stance to appear as tho, "they're listening" to the consumers.

Sorry boys, we can see thru it. Nice try tho!

 

Hypocrites.

'Nuff said.

 

I've got every Metallica album they've released over here, but I never listen to St. Anger. It was very very crap. Once Jason left, they should have just put away the guitars and got the zimmer frames out.

Andy

 

They should have just put it up on Napster.

 

Hopefully it wont be annother st anger, but i aint hopeful, still the live shows still good

would love it if was distributed via napster, would be comedy

 

Now if the music industry had twigged onto this fact 10 years ago, i wonder how much better they'd be off by now?

 

i think it is a little to late..... but at least it is a start.

 

Dosent bother me, wherever metallica goes there sure to be huge. I love there music and so do millions of others.

 

This would have made me really excited...

If I had heard it maybe nine years ago.

Burn out > fade away

 

i was really disappointed by St. Anger.. I had really enjoyed all their music until then... I've gone onto much bigger and better things since.. however, this is a step in the right direction for them.. even if it does seem like Lars is just pulling a PR stunt.

However, there's plenty of die-hard metallica fans who will rejoice, as Freedom810 points out.

 

Screw them, I refuse to listen to their music after what they did to Napster.

 

Metallica is god.

they can kill the whole torrent system for all i care and i will still buy their album.

ya call me a fanboi.

except for St. Anger.

 

Ok, you're a fanboi. St. Anger was the crap at the bottom of the barrel and the epitomy of a great band so far up their own arses, so removed from reality, so void of any talent left whatsoever they genuinely believed kicking the crap out of a water cooler for an hour constituted music. It wasn't the beginning of the end though, whilst the Black Album was good it was signs of things to come, and Load and Reload were real snoozers.

Put on Ronnie, look me in the eye and try to tell me that "yeah, this is good metal". I dare you.