Re:Would you buy a Metallica online album...? (Score 1)

I would, despite what they have done. Not because I forgive them or anything, and I am just as suspicious of their true motivations as anyone else here. But I think that if their 'experiment' with this model fails, it will be seen as justification to perpetuate the status quo. However if we can swallow this bitter pill and get one of the earliest and highest profile critics to come out in our favour (whatever their real motives), that could prove to be an important turning point in bringing down the old world order. Surrendering in the battle with Metallica could end up being a move that would win us the war against the RIAA.