Metallica sells its songs on iTunes. Gotta milk that back catalog, kids...

[Human Torch]

I don't think that fans are exactly sitting on pins & needles waiting for the "St. Anger" follow-up. And Lars needs CASH, baby...lots and lots of it. In the absence of new, quality product, simply pull your stool up to those udders and MILK THE BACK CATALOG.

:toast:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060726/en_music_eo/19600



After famously decrying online downloading as the death of the album format, and filing a few lawsuits in the process, the head-banging quartet has finally acquiesced to Apple and made available their back catalog on the iTunes Music Store Tuesday. "From the 'It's about f---ing time!' file, comes this...," the group said on its Website Monday.

"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."

Metallica had previously made available their music for downloading on Yahoo! Music, MSN Music and Rhapsody, but the iTunes collaboration marks the first time listeners can purchase a single song rather than an entire album.

As of Tuesday, each of the band's 10 albums were available for download, along with a handful of previously unreleased live songs, included as bonus tracks on Metallica's first four discs, Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All.