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[–] [email protected] 114 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Money fucks with people's brains.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 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.

[–] Unforeseen 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dead Kennedy's

I owned this tape 😁

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've been slowly digging through their discography and holy crap

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

IMO one of the greatest punk songs ever written

The Stars and Stripe of Corruption

Peak Dead Kennedy's exercising their freedom of speech while being forced to censer their album cover

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I was going to ask if it was Metallica who used to tell people to tape their songs off the radio but then got annoyed at Napster for spreading their songs.

https://youtu.be/fS6udST6lbE

[–] xiao 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Life would be so boring without pirates.

[–] Aurenkin 23 points 6 months ago

There would definitely be a lot more art permanently lost.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How did they fail at drawing a casette... in the age of casettes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's meant to look like the jolly roger.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I know but human skulls have foreheads.

face proportions human skull drawing

The official logo is realistic and it still works as a Jolly Roger. Even better, arguably.
home taping is killing music

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the first time i got a dual cassette deck was mind blowing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I tried so hard but they lived anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I help the record industry -> the record industry is my friend
That's how this works, right? RIGHT?