- thisbenzingring ( @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ) English108•2 months ago
I am old enough to remember when Metallica was a garage band and wasn’t radio friendly.
The first time I ever heard them was a live bootleg and I remember Hetfield asking the crowd who was hearing them for the first time “loud cheering” then asking who was recording it for a bootleg “loud cheering and screaming” then he said
you better fucking share that shit with your friends!
I will never forgive them for what they did to Napster.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@mander.xyz ) English39•2 months ago
Money fucks with people’s brains.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English18•2 months ago
Legitimately! Early Metallica was all about liberatory politics. Then it turned into center-right american politics. The kinds of dudes who really have hard-ons for how great the status quo is.
- HouseWolf ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English23•2 months ago
Funnily Metallica was the first thing 11yo me pirated after some older student told me about uTorrent/PirateBay.
Same guy also sent me some Slayer and Entombed over bluetooth. Hope he’s doing good these days.
- BlackLaZoR ( @BlackLaZoR@kbin.run ) 33•2 months ago
I would download a car
- leftzero ( @leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ) English6•2 months ago
I don’t even drive a car, but I’d still download one out of principle (wouldn’t actually print it, though, waste of resources if I’m not going to use it).
- Handles ( @halm@leminal.space ) English2•2 months ago
…but will it fit on a 90 minute cassette tape?
- ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ) English11•2 months ago
How did they fail at drawing a casette… in the age of casettes?
- Sir_Kevin ( @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•2 months ago
It’s meant to look like the jolly roger.
- ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ) English11•2 months ago
I know but human skulls have foreheads.
The official logo is realistic and it still works as a Jolly Roger. Even better, arguably.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•2 months ago
the first time i got a dual cassette deck was mind blowing
- 👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•2 months ago
I was the first kid in middle school to have a portable dual tape deck stereo and was suddenly much more popular.
I don’t know if I was actually a GNR fan or if I just heard Appetite for Destruction so many times that I assumed I was a fan.
- tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) English7•2 months ago
I tried so hard but they lived anyway.
- Uriel238 [all pronouns] ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English6•2 months ago
That’s okay. Countless musicians lost their jobs with talkies and the rise of recording.
ETA I’d rather see recording industry moguls lose their job from obsolescence than actual musicians.
- SaharaMaleikuhm ( @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ) English3•2 months ago
I help the record industry -> the record industry is my friend
That’s how this works, right? RIGHT?