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Metallica loves tee-shirts, hates fire
General November 10th, 2008
Listening to the Point (KPNT) through most of my drive from STL to CU taught me a few things. First, Metallica has a new album out. Second, they’re touring to promote it (I haven’t seen them since Rockfest about 8 years ago). Third, the STL Metallica concert is next Monday and the give-aways are in full swing.
Why is this important?
First, the commercial plug for the Metallica concert has James and Lars talking about the show, with some totally bad announcer dubs/overlays for anything relating to the individual show. i.e.: “Hey guys, this is Lars, and we’re Metallica, and we’re totally amped up to play at *announcer voice* The Pageant *end announcer voice* in *announcer* St. Louis on November 17th.” It was so corny, it made me smirk. That, in a commercial, is exactly the kind of douche-baggery I expect from Metallica.
The better commercials were from the radio station talking their promotions for the show, including hourly ticket give-aways and such. Apparently they’re going to upgrade a few of the tickets to “close enough to see their wrinkles” (their joke, not mine). Also, as the grand prize winner, who gets a backstage pass and interview with Lars, you also get a free download of the concert.
And that’s when I almost spit my coffee all over the dashboard. We’ve come quite a ways since 2000 if you can download Metallica concerts. Without a lawsuit, that is. ObReference: Napster BAD!
[ Edit: Had to add the embed video. ]
(Also, completely unrelated, Pandora really seems to link Death Cab for Cutie and Coldplay. I don’t see it.)
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