Posted on 11/11/2008 5:15:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Federal Reserve is leading a desperate struggle to prop up one of the recording industry's biggest and most well known artists as its latest release continues to languish on store shelves and internet retailer warehouses around the country.
Reminiscent of the flurry of bank buyouts conducted by the government in recent months, the Fed said it will pay Warner Brothers Records $30 million dollars for 2 million unsold copies of Metallica's new release "Death Magnetic" to buttress the label, whose exposure to a storm of criticism that the album sucks had led to a crisis in confidence that neither the company nor the band could remain viable.
"As heavily invested as they are in the group, a flop as monumental as 'Death Magnetic' was shaping up to be would not only spell the likely end to the triumphant career of America's most famous heavy metal band, but severely encumber the distribution of the work of other such celebrated Warner Brothers artists as Static-X, Paris Hilton and Larry the Cable Guy should the label fail, and that would be a real shame," said Charles Boddicker of The American Economist.
The decision to buy out what remains of what many consider the latest futile attempt by a group of pitiful old men to recapture the glorious but more than obviously fleeting synergy of their youthful musicianship has elicited an angry backlash from citizens across the country.
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Groan. The Dixie Chicks come to mind. I'm sure they'd be happy to have some gubmint $$ for their tanked careers.
I though Death Magnetic was a pretty good album actually. It’s no Black Album or Ride the Lightning, and it’s infinately better than St. Anger.
I expect the Dixie Sluts to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the Obamessiah admin. and of course to receive honors at the Kennedy Center in DC.
Just watch, lots of the most fervent left-wing scumbags of recent years will be living high on the hog for a long time to come.
I think their new CD isn’t that bad. Definately WAY better than that last POS they put out 4-5 years ago.
Angry backlash? You damn betcha!
If they want to toss bailout money to a "group of pitiful old men", where in hell were they with the bailout-bucks when Jerry Garcia needed them? Yeah, I'm pissed alright!
Deadheads rule! Y'all ain't seen "angry citizens" unless ya been mellow and listening to the Grateful Dead, then had a power outage kill the sound! /s
They’re still a good band, but now we call them the Foo Fighters.
At least their new record was more And Justice than it was Black album. Seems like they are moving more towards their old sound.
I must be the only person in America that actually liked the S&M album. That would be the one where they were recorded live with the San Francisco Symphony. Definitely not their hardcore stuff, but musically well done in my opinion.
Who will bail out Starbuck’s?
I haven’t heard anything off the new album except “The Day That Never Comes” but I do agree that it shows somewhat of a return to their pre-”Black Album” sound.
I thought most of the album was more Justice. Some of the choruses had some Black album, though.
Tell the entire music industry to go out of business!!!!
ROTFLOL!!!
YOU OWE ME A KEYBOARD!!!
I was just sitting here wondering how long it would take for someone to “get it.”
(Your new keyboard is in the mail - along with your slice of Rich Person Obamapie.)
bringing Nirvana back from the dead,
I’m sorry. I know most people worship them, however I don’t like feeling the need to commit suicide while listening to music.
They should have never left their old sound. Once they tried to make adjustments to the 90’s rock-alternative sound I said see ya! A lot of people said no more after the Black Album.
It just blows my mind that their most die-hard fans think they’re today’s Led Zeppelin. I’d say the only comparison talent wise, would be Page/Hammett, and that’s IT.
The one’s I really like are Garage Days Re-revisited, and Garage Inc. They’re really good at bashing out songs with little or no studio processing. It sounds so much better.
Loved Garage Days re-revisited. I was eating those albums up in my early teenage years. Wasn’t so big on their 90s stuff, but by then, I had moved on to Nirvana, Alice in Chains, STP, and Soundgarden. Looking back now, Metallica were definitely in the pocket at least through Justice. The new record dives back into a bit of that, at least to me.
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