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In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Metallica drummer, Lars Ulrich talks about embracing online album distribution.

In summary, Lars Ulrich comes full circle, telling Rolling Stone readers how Metallica is now ready to embrace the world of internet album distribution, much in contrast to Metallica’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Napster and public criticism of peer to peer file sharing networks and practices. Now it seems Metallica is eager to jump on the web distribution bandwagon. Could this be they are concerned with their mediocre aging success and lack of radio airplay for their new tunes? Could it be that they are now learning that the only way to grab the album-and-merchandise buying generation of kids with disposable income is to get to them through the internet? I think this trend-following quote from the article says enough:

“We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor and in twenty-seven years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet.”

Metallica first marketed themselves by handing out their tapes for free so that friends could copy them and spread the word. That’s how they got to be so big in the first place! So I’m sorry Lars, but Metallica lost my media dollar when your outcry against the very practice that made you famous proved how the band has turned into the hypocritical Metallica money machine.