Metallica ends iTunes holdout
By Jonathan Cohen
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060726/tc_nm/metallica_dc_2
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Metallica, one of the biggest acts yet to make
its music available for sale via Apple's iTunes Music Store, has ended
its holdout.
The enduring hard rock outfit's work went on sale Tuesday via the U.S.
and Canada editions of the digital store.
Metallica albums have previously been available for download via
services such as MSN Music, but have never been broken up for
single-song purchase until now. At iTunes, the group's first four albums
("Kill 'Em All," "Ride the Lightning," "Master of Puppets" and "...And
Justice for All") have been expanded with previously unreleased live
tracks recorded in Seattle in 1989.
"We chose these four because, unlike the more recent releases, we were
only capable of writing 8-9 songs for each of these albums," the band
said on its Web site (http://www.metallica.com).
The iTunes rollout covers only the U.S. and Canada for now, due to a
dispute with Metallica's overseas record label, Mercury. The company
"doesn't seem to want to play ball with us on this at the moment," the
band said. (Atlantic handles the band in North America.)
Among the other major artists who have yet to come to an agreement with
iTunes are the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Garth Brooks.
In other Metallica news, the group will appear in animated form on the
season premiere of "The Simpsons," which will air September 10 on Fox.
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