Embargo lifted: Metallica begins offering music on Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 10:25 AM EST"At 12:01 AM, on Tuesday July 25th, we will begin offering our music on the iTunes Music Store, a Cupertino, CA based upstart outfit, who we feel may very well have a bright future," Metallica says via their official website.
Over the last year or so, we have seen an ever-growing number of Metallica fans using online sites like iTunes to get their music. So, in continuing with the tradition of offering our albums for sale online (which we've been doing for a few years through various sites), as well as making our live concerts available for download in their entirety (through the livemetallica.com site), we are now offering fans the opportunity to obtain our songs individually.
Since many fans already have our albums in one form or another, but might still want to check out the digital versions, we decided to throw a couple of previously unreleased live tracks (Seattle, '89) on to each of the first four albums (Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, & ...And Justice For All). We chose these four because, unlike the more recent releases, we were only capable of writing 8-9 songs for each of these albums!
Oh, and by the way, the iTunes Music Stores in the U.S. and Canada are the only ones that will be offering Metallica. This is unfortunately due to the fact that our record company overseas doesn't seem to want to play ball with us on this at the moment. Hopefully this will get sorted out ASAFP, but we didn't want our fans in North America to have to wait any longer while our overseas record company tries to get their shit together!
So on Happy Tuesday, fire up your iTunes, your iPods and whatever else you've got, like we do, and enjoy iMetallica!
Metallica via Apple's iTunes Music Store here.
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome to 2003, Metallica. Oh well, better late than never. Just as we have done previously with Red Hot Chili Peppers, we can now recommend the purchase of Metallica songs again. The real story: "We are now offering fans the opportunity to obtain our songs individually." Please see related article below for the backstory.
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Great, now just get Tool and iTunes will be in business.
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