• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    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.

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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        3 months ago

        Legitimately! Early Metallica was all about liberatory politics. Then it turned into center-right american politics. The kinds of dudes who really have hard-ons for how great the status quo is.

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      3 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.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t even drive a car, but I’d still download one out of principle (wouldn’t actually print it, though, waste of resources if I’m not going to use it).

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 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.