In a message dated 4/14/00 10:46:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being traded like a > commodity rather than the art that it is." > a commodity - that which is bought and sold. fucking asshole can't even get his complaints straight. he's bitching because he's not getting money for the exchange of his music. he's not getting paid for the commodity that he's putting out there. instead, it's being treated unlike a commodity - freely traded. assholes. all of 'em. and fuck 'em cutting their hair, as an always-non-fan of metallica, i say they abandoned their fans for the money when they signed up with bob rock. not that i think major-label = sell-out. . . i think hypocrisy = sell-out. as in, in a rolling stone released right after metallica made the video for "one," their only video at that point, lars ulrich bitched about being lumped in with other metal bands, like def leppard, judas priest, poison, guns n' roses, et al, and then said that metallica was by no means going to make a lot of videos, as that's selling out, doing commercials for the music or some stupid fucked up idiot lars line of thinking. he made some other comments basically saying that "one" was done for artistic purposes, and that was the only reason they made the video. . .then, what happens when the black album comes out? - BAM! - they make 7 videos. including the cliche "here's metallica on the road bon-jovi-wanted-dead-or-alive-style" and "here's metallica grueling it out in the recording studio" whatever. assholes. star
