Metallica, along with Led Zeppelin and the Beatles, is one of the few remaining bands that hadn't given in to, in their words on the Web site in reference to the iTunes Music Store, "a Cupertino, CA based upstart outfit, who we feel may very well have a bright future."
Well, that futile resistance is over now as they announced on their site that they are now in Apple's fold. Hey, what's artistic integrity in comparison to money? They are now offering digital sales of their singles on the popular music download site.
"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," ABC News quotes the band as announcing on its website. "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, we are now offering fans the opportunity to obtain our songs individually.
"Since many fans already have our albums in one form or another, but might still want to check out the digital versions, we decided to throw a couple of previously unreleased live tracks (Seattle, '89) on to each of the first four albums (Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, & ...And Justice For All). We chose these four because, unlike the more recent releases, we were only capable of writing 8-9 songs for each of these albums!"
They will be offering their entire 10 album catalog in the U.S. and Canada at this time until the deals overseas can be finalized.
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