Kid Rock Starves To Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed
July 12, 2000 4:48 PM Subscribe
Kid Rock Starves To Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed...
"This is exactly the kind of thing we've been warning our fans about," James Hetfield, the lone surviving member of Metallica, told reporters during a press conference at Hollywood's Grace Church Homeless Shelter. "First, they found Madonna dead of a crack overdose in the alley behind Liquid. Then my best friend and bandmate Lars is killed by cops during a botched hold-up of a liquor store. Now, Kid Rock dies of starvation like a filthy dog in the street. My God, people, didn't we learn the lesson of Elton John?"
When the number of reposts approaches the number of complaints about reposts, then I'll start worrying.
posted by harmful at 5:57 PM on July 12, 2000
posted by harmful at 5:57 PM on July 12, 2000
Uhmm, what are you talking about?
That'd mean that only one person would complain per post!!!
How are we supposed to self-govern like that?!
posted by Bane at 7:46 PM on July 12, 2000
That'd mean that only one person would complain per post!!!
How are we supposed to self-govern like that?!
posted by Bane at 7:46 PM on July 12, 2000
Besides, it's one thing to post something old off the onion...but it was /.ted... nullifying it of any bloggibility.
(chalk one up for democracy!)
posted by Bane at 8:04 PM on July 12, 2000
(chalk one up for democracy!)
posted by Bane at 8:04 PM on July 12, 2000
How typical. Instead of responding to the rock star (okay, fake-ass, no-talent, had one alright song and is now completely-out-of-ideas-rock star) starvation issue, we bloggers completely ignore this looming pandemic, opting instead to backslide into the comfortable morass of self-absorbtion*.
On a semi-related note, did anyone see the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on digital media? Lars Ulrich is such a huge friggin dork. He's even more of a dork than that guy from Napster. Plus, at some point, didn't Lars think, "Hey wait a minute. What am I doing hanging out with Orrin Hatch anyway? Have I completely lost my mind?" Has he completely forgotten about how it was fans, I mean, thieves, who pirated and shared copies of early Metallica albums that actually made their success possible, back before they were on MTV high rotation and getting play on Top 40 radio?
I suspect that they have completely lost touch with reality and are entering that phase of rock stardom where they will start to play concerts in sequined gowns, a la Cinderella or Ozzy circa 1989.
(*I was going to say navel-gazing, but I'm just sick of people using that term.)
posted by metascene at 10:28 PM on July 12, 2000
On a semi-related note, did anyone see the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on digital media? Lars Ulrich is such a huge friggin dork. He's even more of a dork than that guy from Napster. Plus, at some point, didn't Lars think, "Hey wait a minute. What am I doing hanging out with Orrin Hatch anyway? Have I completely lost my mind?" Has he completely forgotten about how it was fans, I mean, thieves, who pirated and shared copies of early Metallica albums that actually made their success possible, back before they were on MTV high rotation and getting play on Top 40 radio?
I suspect that they have completely lost touch with reality and are entering that phase of rock stardom where they will start to play concerts in sequined gowns, a la Cinderella or Ozzy circa 1989.
(*I was going to say navel-gazing, but I'm just sick of people using that term.)
posted by metascene at 10:28 PM on July 12, 2000
How typical. Instead of responding to the rock star (okay, fake-ass, no-talent, had one alright song and is now completely-out-of-ideas-rock star) starvation issue, we bloggers completely ignore this looming pandemic, opting instead to backslide into the comfortable morass of self-absorbtion*.
On a semi-related note, did anyone see the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on digital media? Lars Ulrich is such a huge friggin dork. He's even more of a dork than that guy from Napster. Plus, at some point, didn't Lars think, "Hey wait a minute. What am I doing hanging out with Orrin Hatch anyway? Have I completely lost my mind?" Has he completely forgotten about how it was fans, I mean, thieves, who pirated and shared copies of early Metallica albums that actually made their success possible, back before they were on MTV high rotation and getting play on Top 40 radio?
I suspect that they have completely lost touch with reality and are entering that phase of rock stardom where they will start to play concerts in sequined gowns, a la Cinderella or Ozzy circa 1989.
(*I was going to say navel-gazing, but I'm just sick of people using that term.)
posted by metascene at 10:28 PM on July 12, 2000
On a semi-related note, did anyone see the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on digital media? Lars Ulrich is such a huge friggin dork. He's even more of a dork than that guy from Napster. Plus, at some point, didn't Lars think, "Hey wait a minute. What am I doing hanging out with Orrin Hatch anyway? Have I completely lost my mind?" Has he completely forgotten about how it was fans, I mean, thieves, who pirated and shared copies of early Metallica albums that actually made their success possible, back before they were on MTV high rotation and getting play on Top 40 radio?
I suspect that they have completely lost touch with reality and are entering that phase of rock stardom where they will start to play concerts in sequined gowns, a la Cinderella or Ozzy circa 1989.
(*I was going to say navel-gazing, but I'm just sick of people using that term.)
posted by metascene at 10:28 PM on July 12, 2000
well, I'm an old man, and my memory isn't as parity-checked as it useta wuz... sorry.
I knew it was old as of date of writing... still think it's funny though, and someone wrote an article that reminded me of it... {shrug}
posted by aurelian at 10:34 PM on July 12, 2000
I knew it was old as of date of writing... still think it's funny though, and someone wrote an article that reminded me of it... {shrug}
posted by aurelian at 10:34 PM on July 12, 2000
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