Metallica to Follow in Radiohead, NIN Footsteps
Metallica is considering pulling a 180 and releasing their next album as a pay-what-you-want digital release, Wired reports, following in the footsteps of both Radiohead and NIN. That would mark a significant shift from the band’s days as poster child for everything that was wrong about the fight between the record companies and online file sharing.
That was back in 2000, when “drummer Lars Ulrich personally delivered a massive printout of the names of people who had been sharing Metallica songs on Napster.”
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