Rock bands The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica are as individual downloads at the iTunes online music store, according to a Reuters report: "That move comes in response to Apple's decision to allow users to buy single tracks and is intended to protect the future of the long-playing album, the format that has dominated the music industry for decades, an agent for the bands said."
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Let's see, if iTMS offers free 30 second previews, then why would there be a problem with releasing individual tracks vs. the whole album.
Oh, I get it, they only put one good song on the album, so people won't buy all the other songs.
*Adds RHCP, Green Day, and Linkin Park to list of bands to boycott, under Metallica.*
Geeze, don't get down on poor metallica, coke & LSD are getting insanely expensive and they have just GOT to get as much money as they can, s**** the fans. After all, without that trippin' coke haze, how can they EVER possibly write any more music?
No problem, it just means that people might not buy the album just as much as they did before. Offering songs individually gives the listener more choice, but if a band for some reason feels that a body of work together is what they want to sell, then so be it.
HOWEVER, there's a difference between talk and action. Refusing to support iTMS because it sells individual songs is NOT a valid reason for debunking the digital model. The artists in question could just tell apple that they may only sell albums, not individual songs. Since that's so obvious, yet they are refusing to do so, this just tells me that they're simply scared of the digital age and want to keep up the status quo. I suppose that's their right, however they might find more and more lost sales as people see the advantages of buying music online.
I guess these bands realize that their non-radio music sucks so bad the only way to make $$ from it is to force it on the consumer.
What I want to see from iTMS is more indy music. Somehow I think they'll be more willing to play ball, just because of the exposure they'll get.
I barely listen to the radio anymore anyway since the only stuff they play is either a) songs I've heard a billion times or b) that "I hate you, GRRRR" c*** that's been filling the airways for the last few years.
Who were Metallica? Ahhh, I remember, some has-been old metal band that pissed off all their fans and now can't shift any CDs.
(hear that sarcasm?)
I stopped listening to Metallica when they started bitching about filesharing, which is the equivalent to the method THEY used to get known themselves.
That's why my nickname for them is 'The Hypocrites'
Give it time...when their album sales drop, they will see the light.
I stopped listening to Metallica when Lars came out of the closet.
While I knew Metallica to be a bunch of technology-hating luddites, I didn't expect the same from Anthony Keadis and crew of the RHCP. Wait until iTunes comes out for Windows, and shortly thereafter when Microsoft comes out with a competing product that sells songs for less than iTunes (it's going to happen- trust me), and CD sales are going to drop even further. When the CD has begun to go the way of the dodo (or in this case, the cassette or the LP), music artists like Metallica, Green Day, RHCP, and the rest will have no choice but to embrace Internet-based music sales.
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metallica is a bunch of f***** whiners. i refused to listen to their music since the napster ordeal.