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Originally posted by Todrick:
Malocs, you almost made sense, but then contradicted yourself and nullified your whole argument.

the second you worry about the "payday" is the second you are no longer an artist.

I'd say Metallica stopped being "Artists" soon after "...and justice for all"
Not true. I'm a visual artist and I worry about food and bills all the time. If I can't eat then I can't create. If I can't pay the mortgage then I don't have a place to sleep. Artist's have the same concerns that non-artists do.

People seem to think that in order to be an artist one must struggle. CRAP! In order to be an artist one must only pick up a tool and be creative with it. Like I said earlier, art is the marriage between creative thought and technical skill. The better of both and the better the art.

You (generally speaking to all XOCers) guys are assuming that some record exec sat Metallica down and told them to change their style. I don't believe that for one second. I believe that Metallica, like all great musicians needed to experiment. Experimentation can be good or bad. That's why it's labeled experimentation. Just because you don't like the "new" Metallica sound doesn't mean that they sold out to some higher power. It just means that they, for whatever reason, decided to switch things up.

Do you really think that Metallica would risk everything they worked for to make some yuppy record exec happy? C'mon! To believe they risked their credibility in the Metal scene and the dollars that their fans spend to follow some record exec's whim is silly. Not to mention, dumb!

I read posts earlier about how people stopped liking Metallica because of the roll they played in the Napster ordeal. I guess it's ok for people to steal from musicians, right? I guess it would be ok for me to steal from you? Right? Now, I believe that the recording industry extorts money from the artists and fans but to resort to stealing is petty. I'm no thief, my mother raised me better than that. (In the old west it was frowned upon - and if you did it too much it was uncool- to kill another man but if you stole somebody's horse you were hanged. Hmmmm!)

Art is subjective and everyone has an opinion. I don't mind someone saying that they don't like the new sound that Metallica has to offer. That's cool. But to make outrageous claims like "they sold out" or "they're just posers" is WHACK! They are who they are. Like 'em or not.