get ready to pay $300 for a concert ticket, and don't forget to pick up an $85 hoodie and $45 t-shirt at the merch table. ![]() Those albums cost a TON of money to make, and if nobody's paying for them, well. When iTunes was announced I started packing my bags, and six months later I was outta there.Ī year or so earlier, Lars Ulrich had gotten all kinds of flack from the punters for coming out against piracy of albums, but I was firmly on his side. It's one thing to ask a friend to make a cassette dub or burn a CD of the latest album, but Napster and LimeWire made it too easy to just stuff your pockets at the all-you-can-eat buffet. ![]() I knew that the punters would steal anything that wasn't nailed down, and Napster lowered the barrier for theft to trivial levels. ![]() This was long before Spotify, Pandora, or YouTube, and before even the iPod was released - but Napster had just come out, and as soon as I saw it in action I knew it was game over for the kind of big-dollar albums I had been involved in.
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