The Hypocrisy of Lars Ulrich

[audiomidijace]

But you're getting a tape that in no way was going to sound as good as the vinyl and back then you cared about getting that album cover and reading the lyrics if they put them on the inside or on the back. It was all about discovering new music and if you liked it you bought it...if you could. Plus we didn't know a whole lot about the bands themselves as there was no internet. Having mystery about an artist made buying the record a lot more fun and it was your conduit to them apart from magazines.
Getting a perfect digital copy in seconds, that is to keep, with no intention of buying it, is a completely different thing. And we also know every little detail about an artist. Shit, they often promote every facet of their lives through their own videos anyway. There's no mystery and unfortunately all too often you see there just as hopeless a dumbass as the rest of us. Most of the legends we know today wouldn't still be known or performing if we'd known every thing about them from day 1.

Guys,
I'm just having some fun and playing the devils advocate here:

We're we not all listening to cassettes in the 80's? The Walkman, the Boombox, etc. Did not many of use use cassette multitrack recorders for our 4 and 8 track demos? I used to write radio jingles that I recorded on and mastered to cassette. They were broadcast on the air and sounded great! With Napster on the other hand, you NEVER knew what you were going to get! Download speeds were slow and MP3 encoders at 128K were not great. Plus sometimes the MP3 files were recorded from scratchy records and worbly tape players. I downloaded a songs that were simply unlistenable. My favorite thing about Napster, was that I could find old recordings that were discontinued and had never been released on CD.

 

[thiswaythatway]

That's a great video actually. Now, who else has a bunch of tapes from local bands from late 80's early 90's?

 

[Oblivion DC]

If I recall correctly Lars was mostly pissed because they found shit on napster that they were still in the studio working on. Stuff that not only hadn't been released but that was also incomplete.

 

[rottingcorpse]

If I recall correctly Lars was mostly pissed because they found shit on napster that they were still in the studio working on. Stuff that not only hadn't been released but that was also incomplete.

That may be true,but I was on Lars side when he came out against illegal downloading. I am still against it because I consider it stealing intellectual property. I still buy CDs. I don't even know how to download music because it's just not important to me. But I have Sirius and Jose Mangen to turn me onto good new metal. Not to mention this forum,I found lots of good stuff from people's posts here.

And the person who posted that back in the day the 8th generation dubbed cassette just got you a taste so you would order the record to dig on the cover art and lyrics and get a better quality sound,you hit it spot on.