Hi, we're Metallica's record company,

[Erik]

and we're going to cash in even further on the good Metallica stuff, but this time we're unfortunately going to do it on something that actually looks really really nice:

http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=60015

Box set with four double LP's, one 12" EP and one picture disc for a total of ten vinyls, each on 180 gram deluxe super mega vinyl except the pic disc... Fuck I mean I don't want to support Metallica anymore, but this looks really really really nice.

 

[lurch70]

that is really nice ... they should call that box set: Metallica - The Glory Days

 

[Nico]

Nah... I'd sleep better at night if they titled it: Metallica - "We Weren't Always Pussies". It certainly would look nice on the shelf.

 

[unhinged]

thats basiclly all you need right there

 

[NAD]

So what's the deal with these fuckers? They are playing mostly older shit in concert and now releasing a vinyl set with only old shit, are they ADMITTING their new shit sucks?

This will probably not be cheap, but if I have some spare change after Christmas I might pick it up.

 

[Erik]

They're not openly admitting it, but they

1) Know it

and

2) Know that the fans know it

That's what I think. I also hope they

3) Know that they can never be good again

and therefore

4) Quit.

 

[NAD]

Good call. It took me until St. Anger to lose it for them but seriously dudes, call it a fuckin' day.

 

[JayKeeley]

So these albums were released by Elektra. What about black album onwards? Were they on Elektra too? If not, maybe that's why only these albums were selected. Otherwise, yeah, this is admission to the fact that anything after AJfA wasn't as good.

By the way, I've fallen deep into dimentia. Does anybody else think it's weird that the "No Life 'till Leather" demo came out the same year as Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast"? My sanity ends are frayed.

 

[spaffe]

5000 copies is pretty damn limited when speaking of Metallica, even though the majority of fans are probably not interested in vinyl they'll proably get it as a collectors item. I could really consider getting that one given it's not ridicoulsy expensive, which might be the case I guess since Elektra will likely try to over-price it in the hope that people in this CD age wont have any conception of vinyl prices. :|
Nice to see anyway that vinyl's not dead even in the "mainstream"

 

[Erik]

Recommended price $99 I think

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I see vinyl repressings of AC/DC albums and stuff in the local record store and they're around $25 CDN each. It appears that vinyl is making a strong comeback in the mainstream.

maybe the record companies are trying to promote it because it can't be easily ripped as mp3s.

 

[NAD]

Recommended price $99 I think

Unsold.

 

[JayKeeley]

Hmm interesting. ALL Metallica albums are on Elektra. Wow, that's quite a statement then.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Kill 'em All was originally released on Megaforce I think, and then Elektra picked up rights to the album.

 

[Demonspell]

Typical collector's bait...reminds me of Live Shit, which was one of the first signs of their insatiable greed, forcing fans to pay for a bloated box set instead of a good old fashioned double live and concert vid...

 

[JayKeeley]

There is live video footage somewhere of the Justice tour. (No bootleg, official camera set up). I watched an xmas special in the UK back in '90 or so, presented by Elvira!, and they showed the band play "And Justice for All" in Hammersmith Odeon. It was excellent footage, and played all the way through to the onstage Lady Justice falling apart at the seams...

....they need to release a live DVD from the Justice tour I think. Just as Maiden need to release a live DVD from the Seventh Son tour.

 

[matt99_crew]

I think there is Justice footage on the videos in the Live Shit box set.