Oh yeah, There was no campaign by napster that made me start hating metallica I just heard them talking to congress and said “Ok they are all pieces of shit now”.

Also, Load and every album after that also sucked balls so that helped me move them into the “They suck” category too.

FUCK YOU Lars!!!
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there is so much free software available these days (starting with Firefox), none of these creators gets paid for the software they make, yet they still make it. That shouldn’t be possible in the supposedly “logical” world you think we live in.

the fundamental difference between software and other creative works is that software is almost always a tool, and people (and lets face it, corporations, under which a great deal of open source and even free software is written now) use their own tools.

and of course i take issue with your statement that only independent artists are real artists. that’s the same BS the other idiot was spewing.

i do agree the labels have a stranglehold on top 40 radio but it’s not like they’re playing something that the majority doesn’t want to hear. you can say that’s all marketing and maybe you’re right but i don’t think we’ll ever see a day where something like fleet foxes has a majority following. store shelf space is also a problem but not for very much longer. best buy recently halved their record shelving. you seem to think that if the labels were eradicated there would be no more pop music, and little niche bands would get their much deserved time in the limelight. unfortunately, this is not the case. there will always be pop music and thus a discrepancy in what is played and sold.

It’s also a fair bet, that if the Music cartels die, the quality of music will rise dramatically. Right now the cartels monopolize all traditional outlets, shelf space, radio stations, TV stations. What they play is being manipulated by the music cartels to push their drivel to the wider public. Small time, independent musicians (i.e. those who could really use some money to get by) can’t get through and need day time jobs. The cartels must die to liberate the real artists.

Getting paid is incidental for a genuine artist because a genuine artist creates art for the love of the craft.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH…so you respond with the same recycled nonsense? that was your strategy? completely ignoring the fact that an artist can make art for it’s own sake AND for money? that there is no historical or otherwise rational evidence for the two being mutually exclusive?

getting paid is not incidental to an independent adult who has to do their own laundry and pay their own rent. again, one day you will learn this when you move out of mommy’s house or your daddy-afforded dorm or whatever other completely dependent living conditions you’re no doubt currently enjoying.

and no, artists WILL NOT continue to create art if they can’t afford to. common sense again. if you have to hawk you instruments to buy food you will not be playing them. if you have to spend the majority of your time on a day job you will not be making anywhere as much art to anywhere near the same degree of quality as a person with your identical abilities who can afford to devote themselves to the craft full time. art is a craft like any other and requires a lot of practice to do well. being paid for your art affords you the time to make more of it. this couldn’t be simpler.

nothing in any of you adolescent drivel supports what you claim and it is not my reading comprehension that’s lacking, merely your obvious inability to think rationally or support your views logically.

there’s no way you’re older than fourteen.

There’s no way you’re older than three. Your bawling little tantrum of butthurt only supports this, as well as the fact that you seem unable to grasp such a simple concept as playing music for the love of music versus playing music for love of money.

Getting paid is incidental for a genuine artist because a genuine artist creates art for the love of the craft. Even if they weren’t getting paid for it, they would still find themselves creating art. Hence, incidental.

Getting paid is not incidental for a whore because a whore creates “art” for the love of money. If they weren’t being paid for it, or weren’t being paid their idea of enough, they would immediately quit. Even when they’re filthy rich like the members of Metallica are, the whore complains bitterly about “lost revenue” and “deminishing profits” since the driving force behind their work is an insatiable greed for money. The whore is not a genuine artist.

But all of this flew right over your head, and so you somehow misinterpreted a ‘genuine musician’ to mean a Gandhi-like persona who lives in abject poverty for reasons that only make sense inside your own fevered little imagination.

And that, kids, is why you need reading comprehension. Just being able to read isn’t enough to keep you from making a retard out of yourself.

lol

The whole article is to generate publicity which it succeded doing for a band way past its self by date. Seriously they havent released anything worth stealing since the black album.

If someone could rationalize that part of it maybe I would be pissed too.