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Metallica ends iTunes holdout and makes songs available for download at 11:12 on July 28, 2006, EST.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hard rockers Metallica, who have refused to make individual songs from albums available for sale online, has begun doing so on the iTunes Music Store. Fans may buy tracks a la carte for 99 cents or purchase the albums. In a posting on the group's website, the band acknowledged that fans have been increasingly buying music online and said it added some previously unreleased live tracks recorded in Seattle in 1989 to each of the albums to entice those who already own copies. The group, which in the early part of the decade led the charge against the original Napster online file-sharing service, has previously made its albums available for purchase online through retailers and its own website. Other iTunes holdouts include the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Radiohead. ©The Canadian Press, 2006 
Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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moderatorIt's about time, they're a great band LOL!  Prince is a genius, period! | |
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interesting that thom yorke's album is on iTunes even though radiohead have been big holdouts. | |
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Anx said: interesting that thom yorke's album is on iTunes even though radiohead have been big holdouts.
I'm just guessing, here, but I bet that Radiohead is one of those bands that object to iTune's insistance that albums be made available on a track-by-track basis. Perhaps Yorke doesn't consider his solo effort to be intergrated whole, but rather a collection of songs. a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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Stax said: Anx said: interesting that thom yorke's album is on iTunes even though radiohead have been big holdouts.
I'm just guessing, here, but I bet that Radiohead is one of those bands that object to iTune's insistance that albums be made available on a track-by-track basis. Perhaps Yorke doesn't consider his solo effort to be intergrated whole, but rather a collection of songs. As it were, Radiohead's albums were actually available on the iTMS when it debuted. Ironically enough, it was downloading one of their songs that got me interested in their albums (having only really heard "Creep" years back). "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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AlexdeParis said: Stax said: I'm just guessing, here, but I bet that Radiohead is one of those bands that object to iTune's insistance that albums be made available on a track-by-track basis. Perhaps Yorke doesn't consider his solo effort to be intergrated whole, but rather a collection of songs. As it were, Radiohead's albums were actually available on the iTMS when it debuted. Ironically enough, it was downloading one of their songs that got me interested in their albums (having only really heard "Creep" years back). i see. the plot thickens. a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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oh aren't Metallica generous and bold leaders | |
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