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Don,
You sound like a true Metallica fan. I can respect that, but I don't like the music they are making anymore. I don't think all their albums should sound like "Puppets", in fact I think Kill 'em all, Lightning and Puppets were all very different sounding, but awesome in their own right.
I personally don't care about the whole napster thing, I don't use it but not for some huge moral or ethical reason (I just have a REALLY slow computer). I like music on a very visceral level, and Metallica just doesn't appeal to me anymore. There are a bunch of bands that I feel this way about. Slayer for instance, hasn't had a good album since they lost Dave Lombardo like 10 years ago.
In my opinion, another band that hasn't lost a thing over the last 20 years is King Diamond/Mercyful Fate and he will NEVER get airplay. For the rest of them at least my cds will last for ever.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't know what I would be listening to if I was a kid today. I couldn't imagine high school without Dio, Maiden, Slayer, Ozzy (with Randy of course), Metallica (the good years as I call them), Floyd, Zeppelin, Sabbath, etc. What do they have today? Disturbed? Godsmack? Puddle of Mudd? Yuck. Or even worse, that hip-hop crap - .45 to the temple please.
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