Remember that Metallica band members played an active driving role in those lawsuits against their own underage fans. It wasn't just the RIAA / record company organizations behaving cruelly, it was Metallica themselves. Fuck Metallica.

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Hamuko 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not that surprising considering that James Hetfield has no qualms about his music being used for literal torture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo

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roegerle 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how they were able to recover from that is beyond me.

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dotancohen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They didn't. I haven't bought a Metallica album since the black album. That was a decade earlier, because everything since sucked, but as I got older I thought about maybe expanding my tastes. I avoided Metallica specifically for their disrespect of their fans.

	▲	DaSHacka 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Did they not? Seems like they're still quite popular, and I knew people in HS (for reference, late 2010s to early '20s) that were big into the band. Additionally, looking at Google Trends[0], it seems they peaked in 21st-century online popularity in 2008 and had another notable uptick in 2017. I think a lot of us want the assholes to have suffered real consequences for their behavior, but want is different from did. [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

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iririririr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[flagged]

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coreyburnsdev 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

one of their best songs is "don't tread on me"

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budsniffer95o an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why are all forums inundated with this ridiculous nonsense? They are "MAGA"? How so? Are people who follow MAGA typically anti-piracy or something? Bizarre.

	▲	garyfirestorm an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The ideology has an inherent toxicity to it, along with a self own, doubling down on mistakes that would harm you and the others in longer run, embracing silly ideas and a general disregard for niceties. Would have been nice if they didn’t hurt their own fans like that could be simply phrased as ‘being MAGA’
	▲	throw10920 25 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It [calling anything you don't like "maga"] is political in-group signalling of a tribal ideology that also serves the dual purpose of destroying the meaning of language. Categorically inappropriate for HN - flag it and move on.

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reactordev 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Killed Napster and forced them overseas to create one of the most toxic streaming platforms for music the world has ever seen. Spotify. Sean Parker used to be cool…