I think Lars has it backwards. When you place a price on art at all, you devalue it. I'm sure most people would agree that record companies have shredded what we could consider the "musical artform". I am truely dissapointed, as a metallica fan i always looked to them as a beacon of freedom and musicians who still wrote for the sake of art not profit. The greatest artists in history died penniless, the greatest pieces of art are in museums for everyone to see, many of the most famous poets, Emily Dickenson for one, published almost nothing in their life. It was only after their death that others found their art and gave it to the world. Those are the true artists of our time, and i thought Metallica was one of them, but now we find that they are angry because too many people are experiencing their art in it's truest form. The purpose of art is to give your soul physical form, be that through music, painting, poetry, and when you put a price on it, you put a price on your very soul. Metallica has betrayed art.
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I think Lars has it backwards. When you place a price on art at all, you devalue it. I'm sure most people would agree that record companies have shredded what we could consider the "musical artform". I am truely dissapointed, as a metallica fan i always looked to them as a beacon of freedom and musicians who still wrote for the sake of art not profit. The greatest artists in history died penniless, the greatest pieces of art are in museums for everyone to see, many of the most famous poets, Emily Dickenson for one, published almost nothing in their life. It was only after their death that others found their art and gave it to the world. Those are the true artists of our time, and i thought Metallica was one of them, but now we find that they are angry because too many people are experiencing their art in it's truest form. The purpose of art is to give your soul physical form, be that through music, painting, poetry, and when you put a price on it, you put a price on your very soul. Metallica has betrayed art.