Buy Death Magnetic at Hot Topic TODAY

[HardcoreZ28]

It's on sale today only at Hot Topic stores for $5. Almost makes it worth buying instead of stealing online haha. They also have 2 different t-shirts for $10 available.

[ar0ck]

Its always worth pirating it online especially if its from Metallica

[BigAls87Z28]

Already pirated...sorry.

[HardcoreZ28]

Hahaha.....what.....nobody wants the album art??? LOL talk about something that's a thing of the past.

[Knipps]

You can download that too

[shane27]

i get a free copy when i go to the concert

[GP99GT]

Originally Posted by shane27

i get a free copy when i go to the concert

you get it next week actually, chris said theyre coming monday

[shane27]

Originally Posted by GP99GT

you get it next week actually, chris said theyre coming monday

well how about that

[deadtrend1]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

Already pirated...sorry.

me too ...

I mean. I got a special preview of the album ...

[BonzoHansen]

Getting free ones as bonus for buying concert tix

[SteveR]

Regardless of who the band is and what you may think of them, pirating music, regardless of the legalities of it, will almost assure the death of performing arts in this country. If nobody buys the cd, then all that up front money spent recording the album is the responsibility of the band to pay back to the label who provided the advance. If the trend is big enough, which it is now, then labels wont want to pay the proper amount of money to record the album the right way. Then the big studios go out of business, as they are. Then to try and recoup the loss the labels raise the price on cds. Now you have labels paying little to no money to record an album, thats done in some guys basement, that doesnt sound great, and the engineers are unemployed. Go on ebay alone and see how much high end pro studio gear is being liquidated because of studios going under. You cant call yourself a fan of anything if you're stealing from them.

[79CamaroDiva]

Originally Posted by SteveR

Regardless of who the band is and what you may think of them, pirating music, regardless of the legalities of it, will almost assure the death of performing arts in this country. If nobody buys the cd, then all that up front money spent recording the album is the responsibility of the band to pay back to the label who provided the advance. If the trend is big enough, which it is now, then labels wont want to pay the proper amount of money to record the album the right way. Then the big studios go out of business, as they are. Then to try and recoup the loss the labels raise the price on cds. Now you have labels paying little to no money to record an album, thats done in some guys basement, that doesnt sound great, and the engineers are unemployed. Go on ebay alone and see how much high end pro studio gear is being liquidated because of studios going under. You cant call yourself a fan of anything if you're stealing from them.

he's one of them.. as the highest trained person in the state of NJ on ProTools (an industry standard program), we searched for almost 2 years and he couldn't get a job in the music industry unless we moved to TN. I used to dl music, figured who will it hurt? The band? hell, they get enough revenue through ticket sales, what does it matter.. wrong. Eventually it affected me, albeit indirectly, still affected me when he couldn't find a job.

[BonzoHansen]

<--never downloaded copyrighted/commercially available music

That sucks. But the music industry (its leaders) devoured itself by whoring the price of music. New cds cost too damn much. $10 @ CD is about right IMO. Not $18-20. It's just like the current financial industry that is getting hammered because of a few greedy upper mgmt types. The employees that make it tick get the shaft. No, I don't feel bad for the CEO of Lehman Brothers that just lost like $750M in personal asset value. But I feel bad for the Lehman employees that will be out of work and whose retirement $$ just fell into the sea.

Then again I think the CD ruined music, but that is another story.

side note: Tell the currently employed engineers to stop the madness that is the 'loudness wars' . A lot of new music has no subtlety anymore and is hard to listen to.

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[SteveR]

Originally Posted by BonzoHansen

side note: Tell the currently employed engineers to stop the madness that is the 'loudness wars' . A lot of new music has no subtlety anymore and is hard to listen to.
.

Thats all style unfortunately. One knucklehead does it and it sells a record and now everybody does it. Thats also part of the fall out of the implosion of the music business, a lot of the good producers and engineers are seeking refuge in places like France where the music scene is probably the strongest in the world right now.

[BonzoHansen]

This about right?

[SteveR]

Originally Posted by BonzoHansen

This about right?

LOL thats awesome

[BonzoHansen]

Awesome like a train wreck. This is killing a lot of 'remasters' too. Sad that orginal CD pressings (which often sounded crappy) are better than new ones. That crappy early days/later days Zep cd set is a good example of a g/h hits package that sucks. (side advice: buy the cube or get the old 4 cd box set and followup 2 cd set).

W/O ever looking at pics, the velvet revolver stuff sounds really compressed. Hell, I picked up the new whietsnake cd ($10) at target because it had a bonus live cd that has stuff from the deep purple/coverdale days and the studio cd is so compressed it's like has a hum like an amp with a ground problem. Surprisingly a few of the new tunes rock. I bet untamed dave would like this cd.

[SteveR]

Awesome like listening to feedback at a bazillion decibels.

[BonzoHansen]

Originally Posted by SteveR

Awesome like listening to feedback at a bazillion decibels.

Perfect, like a lot of new music. You can listen for a while, but eventually it gives you a headache. Too bad, it might be burying good music.

[SteveR]

Originally Posted by BonzoHansen

Perfect, like a lot of new music. You can listen for a while, but eventually it gives you a headache. Too bad, it might be burying good music.

Thats why my next project is going to revolutionize music. It'll bring back the golden age of noise sounds. It'll be five hours of carnival music. Maybe I'll title it "Music for Peanut Eating Monkeys" , or "Music to Spank Your Monkey To" Not quite sure of the title, but the whole clown in makeup/pie in the face theme is working out well so far.

[BonzoHansen]

Can I play a theramin? Good Vibrations rules.

[SteveR]

Originally Posted by BonzoHansen

Can I play a theramin? Good Vibrations rules.

theramins are awesome!

[79CamaroDiva]

Originally Posted by SteveR

theramins are awesome!

do they come in men's, women's, and silver for those 50+?

[SteveR]

Originally Posted by 79CamaroDiva

do they come in men's, women's, and silver for those 50+?

you can accessorize your theramin

[BonzoHansen]

Maybe