Make a Wish

april 28, 2009

Holycrap. It’s just come to my attention that there’s a new cave in album coming down the pike. I was just listening to them yesterday and tried seeing if there were any updates, but couldn’t find anything.

This has been near the top of my wishlist for a while (basically since they announced they were going on hiatus), and now it means the planets are aligned and I have to make another big wish, so here goes…

I wish I had a bajillion dollars.

There, I said it. Now, as soon as google figures out how much that is, I’ll be all set.

Hilarious Hypocrisy

march 5, 2009

NEWS FLASH: Lars Ulrich Illegally Downloaded His Own Album.

Now I’ve heard everything. That article also has a clip recorded when their documentary, Some Kind of Monster, came out. I saw that movie primarily to confirm my suspicions that the worst decision Metallica ever made was to let Lars Ulrich be their drummer. I was right.

In the youtube video, Lars admits he’s a control freak, and it comes as no surprise. He has been the posterboy for the industry’s witch-hunt on filesharing. His argument was that filesharing is tantamount to stealing, yet somehow he has the “right to download Death Magnetic for free.” Lars can’t have his cake and eat it too. He wants to infinite control of Metallica even if that …

Read more »