One last thing, if any of Ozzy's people out there are following this debate, please learn from it, I don't think I could take the kick in the nuts if Ozzy did something like this. Say it ain't so Ozzy!
And kiss my money good by Metallica, since you assume that everyone that uses napster is a thief, f*** you I will be. Metallica will never get another dime outta my pocket, and since that's all they care about anymore that'll talk in a language you and your net ignorant lawyers can understand.
( What a surprise you guys get commercial and it turns out you've been talking shit all these years.)
I've been a Metallica fan since a buddy played a crappy kill 'em all tape tape for me way back in the 80's. And years before you were real big, my band was playing "Seek and Destroy" before anyone up here in Canada knew who you were.
You made it with no radio play and because of people like me, you hipocritical bastards. You wouldn't have the cash for the lawyers to sue us now, if we didn't spread the word about you way back. Now you repay us like this? I've bought every album you've put out in muliple formats. I've paid you SOCAN ( copyright group up here in Canada) to play your music to people.
I've been a pro DJ up here in Canada for 12 friggin years and There has never been 1 day that goes by that I haven't played Metallica tune in the DJ booth. In fact I was the MC of Miss Nude Canada 1999, and we used your cover of "So What" as our theme song for the week) Full blast outta kickass stripclub sound system, in a rocking bar filled with the hottest chicks in the country while we're getting loaded. You coulda filmed a video for the tune in there man, we lived up to it. The bar is called Showgirls up here in lil Edmonton Alberta and we play Metallica all the time.
So you see I loved you guys, but then you turn on the very same people that made you. You should be making the future possible. You guys gotta know that There has been a lot of cool shit invented or coded for the internet with your tunes playing in the background. Embrace this stuff guys, it's your fans that are building it. Freethinkers, that don't trust goverment, or big business. You helped teach us that by the thought and passion in your music. Help us change things for the better. Where music stands on it's own merits, not on how much the record company wants to throw behind the flavor of the week. Where the artists get paid, and so does the company that helps get them from the bar room to the recording studio. Remember that? I know what it was like being a starving musician. I was one,just like you, the bad gigs the sleazeballs, the groupies. I've been there. I know where you're coming from.
You're real fans will buy anything you want to sell 'em. I know I've spend at least 1k on albums, concerts, and other lil crap. Look at napster as that first freebie that drug dealers give to people to get them hooked. Once they're hooked they'll pay anything. It's the same thing guys. Use it to your advantage and you'll come out on top, all artists will, the creme will rise to the top, and even the crappy stuff will have a fan or two, the market is that HUGE.
In closing all I have to say is, don't betray those that made you, instead, get some smart people to figure out how you can best make the future happen, and make it better for all artists. You have the money, you have the power, you have the control over your own stuff. If you won't do it, then it'll have to be all the lil guys that are making use of it. In the end they'll win. Earn back your fans respect and reconsider.
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One last thing, if any of Ozzy's people out there are following this debate, please learn from it, I don't think I could take the kick in the nuts if Ozzy did something like this. Say it ain't so Ozzy!
And kiss my money good by Metallica, since you assume that everyone that uses napster is a thief, f*** you I will be. Metallica will never get another dime outta my pocket, and since that's all they care about anymore that'll talk in a language you and your net ignorant lawyers can understand.
( What a surprise you guys get commercial and it turns out you've been talking shit all these years.)
Still pissed off
Reverend John
I've been a Metallica fan since a buddy played a crappy kill 'em all tape tape for me way back in the 80's. And years before you were real big, my band was playing "Seek and Destroy" before anyone up here in Canada knew who you were.
You made it with no radio play and because of people like me, you hipocritical bastards. You wouldn't have the cash for the lawyers to sue us now, if we didn't spread the word about you way back. Now you repay us like this? I've bought every album you've put out in muliple formats. I've paid you SOCAN ( copyright group up here in Canada) to play your music to people.
I've been a pro DJ up here in Canada for 12 friggin years and There has never been 1 day that goes by that I haven't played Metallica tune in the DJ booth. In fact I was the MC of Miss Nude Canada 1999, and we used your cover of "So What" as our theme song for the week) Full blast outta kickass stripclub sound system, in a rocking bar filled with the hottest chicks in the country while we're getting loaded. You coulda filmed a video for the tune in there man, we lived up to it. The bar is called Showgirls up here in lil Edmonton Alberta and we play Metallica all the time.
So you see I loved you guys, but then you turn on the very same people that made you. You should be making the future possible. You guys gotta know that There has been a lot of cool shit invented or coded for the internet with your tunes playing in the background. Embrace this stuff guys, it's your fans that are building it. Freethinkers, that don't trust goverment, or big business. You helped teach us that by the thought and passion in your music. Help us change things for the better. Where music stands on it's own merits, not on how much the record company wants to throw behind the flavor of the week. Where the artists get paid, and so does the company that helps get them from the bar room to the recording studio. Remember that? I know what it was like being a starving musician. I was one,just like you, the bad gigs the sleazeballs, the groupies. I've been there. I know where you're coming from.
You're real fans will buy anything you want to sell 'em. I know I've spend at least 1k on albums, concerts, and other lil crap. Look at napster as that first freebie that drug dealers give to people to get them hooked. Once they're hooked they'll pay anything. It's the same thing guys. Use it to your advantage and you'll come out on top, all artists will, the creme will rise to the top, and even the crappy stuff will have a fan or two, the market is that HUGE.
In closing all I have to say is, don't betray those that made you, instead, get some smart people to figure out how you can best make the future happen, and make it better for all artists. You have the money, you have the power, you have the control over your own stuff. If you won't do it, then it'll have to be all the lil guys that are making use of it. In the end they'll win. Earn back your fans respect and reconsider.
Reverend John
a True fan.