120 points

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.

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41 points

Money fucks with people’s brains.

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19 points

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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24 points

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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57 points

Dead Kennedy’s

I owned this tape 😁

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14 points

I’ve been slowly digging through their discography and holy crap

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9 points

IMO one of the greatest punk songs ever written

The Stars and Stripe of Corruption

Peak Dead Kennedy’s exercising their freedom of speech while being forced to censer their album cover

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9 points

I was going to ask if it was Metallica who used to tell people to tape their songs off the radio but then got annoyed at Napster for spreading their songs.

https://youtu.be/fS6udST6lbE

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38 points

Life would be so boring without pirates.

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23 points

There would definitely be a lot more art permanently lost.

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32 points

I would download a car

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2 points

…but will it fit on a 90 minute cassette tape?

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11 points

How did they fail at drawing a casette… in the age of casettes?

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11 points

It’s meant to look like the jolly roger.

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I know but human skulls have foreheads.

The official logo is realistic and it still works as a Jolly Roger. Even better, arguably.

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