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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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Jul 25, 06 - 09:29 am Comment from: gbaby

Great, now just get Tool and iTunes will be in business.

-good things

Jul 25, 06 - 09:31 am Comment from: Jim

I got all the Metallica I wanted (not a lot, they suck IMO apart from a few songs) from P2P networks, because they didn't sign up to iTunes. Sorry Metallica, too little too late.

Jul 25, 06 - 09:31 am Comment from: gforce

Oh what???? you can make money with this digital thing??? welcome to the 21st century morons!

Jul 25, 06 - 09:31 am Comment from: DIMEBAG

Cool…

Jul 25, 06 - 09:33 am Comment from: BrooklynNYC

Hmm, I guess "Zune" lost another artist. Someone ought to tell Enderle as he believes that all artists hate Apple and iTunes and will be flocking to MS soon-to-be-released, upcoming failure number 3 (see: Vista, MS Office 2007).

Enderle - wrong again, wrong as usual, just plain wrong.

Jul 25, 06 - 09:33 am Comment from: metal Licka

It's like the guy who STILL won't order with his credit card on the internet because he's just not sure about it yet. raspberry

MDN may suggest buying Metallica...I suggest ignoring them completely!

Jul 25, 06 - 09:38 am Comment from: mac user 47

Jim, you suck. They didn't move quick enough for your tastes so you steal their music? I guess is someone else is successful and you want what they have - just take it! Try that at a store the next time you go to the mall ...

Jul 25, 06 - 09:38 am Comment from: macromancer

Who gives a crap. Now that they suck and no one cares they decide to sell online.

Smells of desperation.

Jul 25, 06 - 09:39 am Comment from: MetalHead

Such hypocrites! They pretend it's about the music and want to keep the album format and NOW they find out they can make more money. It's not about the music, it's about buying a bigger house. I used to LOVE Metallica...now I'm deleting their songs off my iPod.

Jul 25, 06 - 09:43 am Comment from: iSeeSomething

off topic… but as of today 20 inch iMacs have a 5-7 day shipping time throughout Europe. Was 24 hrs.

stock running low? something in the pipeline?

Jul 25, 06 - 09:43 am Comment from: What???

Metallica.... BFD....

MW: Should have been "Yesterday". The magic is gone

Jul 25, 06 - 09:47 am Comment from: mudflapper

Too bad they've sucked since the black album. Don't Tread On Me? OK, redneck.

S

Jul 25, 06 - 09:50 am Comment from: Someone with taste

Steal their music???

You couldn't pay me enough to soil my hard drives with their crap!

Jul 25, 06 - 09:51 am Comment from: Eddie

A couple years ago, I saw an interview with Metallica's frontman. When the interviewer asked how he feels about iTunes-style services which allow fans to buy only the songs they want, he responded along the lines of "If the fans only buy one or two songs, what's the point of making a whole album".

At the time I thought he was an idiot, but had to respect him sticking to his ideals, even if they were greedy and stupid.

Napster bad. Money good.

Jul 25, 06 - 09:52 am Comment from: eiscir

interestingly, thom yorke's solo album is on itunes (and doing very well), but radiohead's stuff isn't, due to them not wanting people to buy songs individually, but listen to the albums as a whole. I wonder when that'll change now that thom has put his stuff up?

Jul 25, 06 - 09:55 am Comment from: bones

now howzabout Led Zep

Jul 25, 06 - 09:56 am Comment from: Ross

So Lars ... Who runs Bartertown?

Jul 25, 06 - 09:56 am Comment from: G-ZUS

I still wouldn't recommend buying Metallica songs.

http://www.cafepress.com/stenar/513891

MDN word: yet. I wouldn't recommend Metallica, YET.

Jul 25, 06 - 09:57 am Comment from: MacMan

Well, all I have to say is this:
Money talks, and it is loud.

Since the also-rans are not able to compete with iTunes, Metallica must join in -- regardless of their stance towards Apple.

It was never about DRM. It was always about $$$.

Greedy labels? How about greedy artists?

Jul 25, 06 - 10:02 am Comment from: mike k.

dear Metallica -- Just wanted to let you know that we still find you relevant even if no one else does.

Hugs ... xoxoxo
1993

Jul 25, 06 - 10:14 am Comment from: Pirate Bob

Won't publish on iTunes? Fine, I'll just get it for free then

Resistance is futile.

Jul 25, 06 - 10:17 am Comment from: carlo

AC/DC already! hmmm thats what you get for being with sony.

Jul 25, 06 - 10:20 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

I'm with Bones... let's get some Led Zep!

BTW... I'm not related to Jim, he just started using my handle a few months back and I had to adjust mine to prevent confusion. Seems he's also got issues about "using" music online he didn't pay for.

Jul 25, 06 - 10:25 am Comment from: effwerd

It's too late you bunch of drunkards, you suck. And this, "iTunes Music Store, a Cupertino, CA based upstart outfit, who we feel may very well have a bright future," shows that you're very, very slow, too.

Jul 25, 06 - 10:32 am Comment from: Jim - the independent tool

Actually, the more that I think about it, Led Zeppelin's alright ... but what we really need is some Donny & Marie.

That'd be the bees knees.

Jul 25, 06 - 10:35 am Comment from: BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots

Uhm, effwerd, I think that was an attempt at humor on their part. Classy? No, but I don't expect much from James & co. anymore.

Jul 25, 06 - 10:41 am Comment from: ipodG8TR

Like them or not, this is good news for iTMS. They are one of the biggest rock bands in history so the addition of their music is a good thing.

Metallica was one of my favorite bands but I already own most of their early CDs so I probably won't download any tracks unless they they are live performances or unreleased tracks.

So what's with everyone wishing for Beatles, Led Zepplin and other extinct bands on iTunes? If you like them so much you already OWN their CDs or at least their greatest hits. So what's the point in adding them?

They should be added, but not for any type of premium because everyone already owns their music and they're not making any new music. Unless it is NEW CONTENT or UNRELEASED OR LIVE RECORDINGS, why all the fuss?

Jul 25, 06 - 10:45 am Comment from: Bizarro Jeff

As they say in the vernacular, "Whatev."

Jul 25, 06 - 11:01 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

@Jim - the independent tool

Donny and Marie? so you're a nerd AND a theif?

Jul 25, 06 - 11:04 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

before the spelling police attact

theif should be thief

"a thief by any other name..."

Jul 25, 06 - 11:05 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

lol.. ok.. no more late night margaritas for me!
attact should be attacq, er... atak, aw fergit it

Jul 25, 06 - 11:13 am Comment from: Jim

Actually, Jim - the independent voter, that Jim above is not me. I'm afraid my views are not that ignorant. Henceforth, I will be posting as Jimithy.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:14 am Comment from: Jim - the independent tool

I lyke to spel alot of things, no seereously, I due.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:18 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

seems I have fans...

Jul 25, 06 - 11:21 am Comment from: Jimithy

No, you see, I am the Jim that started using your name a few months ago. Not that asshat that steals simply because iTunes doesn't have it yet.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:22 am Comment from: DV

After the Napster thing, I will NEVER give metallica money. EVER.

I'm sorry, they're slime. If I'm listening to the radio and they come on, I turn the station. And it's not because of their music.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:31 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

Jimithy... keep using Jim bro.... in my original post I didn't put a emoticon sticking out my tongue, it was meant as a friendly dig, or as my NY friends say, I was "bustin ya balls" tongue wink

as far as my impersonating friend goes..... ah well. There are some cowards on MDN that won't post under their real names. It happend to Thorin the other day, guess it's my turn.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:34 am Comment from: flappo

ac/dc and jethro tull are nowhere to be seen either

Jul 25, 06 - 11:39 am Comment from: Lars Ulrich

Come on guys, my wife is a real

bitch, and if I don't get her a

new Aston Martin DB9 soon, everything

will go to shit. So belly up to the

iTunes bar and start downloading our

stuff, please. Let's forget the past.

LOL,

Thorin

Jul 25, 06 - 11:40 am Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

"doesn't it bother you when people think that Jethro Tull is someone in the band?"

"who's Jethro Tull"

Jul 25, 06 - 11:51 am Comment from: matt

All they need now is zeppelin and the beatles

were gettin there

Jul 25, 06 - 11:53 am Comment from: Jim - the ignorant slut

I always thought that the hair bands of the 80's were the apex of musical and wardrobe achievement.

Them, and Dolly Parton.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:55 am Comment from: Ampar

"Metallica begins offering music on Apple’s iTunes Music Store"

NOW life has meaning! <whew>


(Jethro Tull was an 18th-century agriculturist who invented the seed drill. See the connection? Robert Plant did!)

tongue wink

Jul 25, 06 - 11:56 am Comment from: Ampar

(Jethro Tull was an 18th-century agriculturist who invented the seed drill. See the connection? Robert Plant did!)*

*Said with deep sympathy for millions of seeded groupies.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:57 am Comment from: effwerd

Uhm, effwerd, I think that was an attempt at humor on their part.

Have you ever talked to these guys? I think you overestimate their mental abilities.

Jul 25, 06 - 11:58 am Comment from: Cubert

"And iTunes For All!"

Jul 25, 06 - 11:59 am Comment from: ron

Screw Majollica

Jul 25, 06 - 12:00 pm Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

@Jim - the ignorant slut

lol.... ok little one. If it makes you happy flame away. I'm actually enjoying this.

I bet your parents are SO proud.

Jul 25, 06 - 12:02 pm Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

Matt...

I don't think the Beatles will ever happen. It'd be nice, but Apple Corp won't do it. It would be the smart thing to do, and why start doing that now?

Jul 25, 06 - 12:03 pm Comment from: Jim - the independent voter

Not that I really have anything better to do, mind you.

Jul 25, 06 - 12:03 pm Comment from: Ampar

The bong haze cleared and several of the band members were finding out about iTunes for the first time. They were more impressed upon learning that Britney had kissed Madonna.


There's cutting edge and then there's a lifeless, smooth slab of lead.

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