OFF: Fwd: More Metallica/Napster

[Thomas Rickert]

Would someone post the Metallica parody to the list? I'd like to see the whole thing.

Thanks,
Thomas

MissileCommand wrote:

> Paul Mather wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 May 2000, MissileCommand forwarded:
> >
> > => >From: "*" <benos at clam.rutgers.edu>
> > => >       4:21 PMSubject:
> > => >To:"List" <raving at sudval.org>
> > =>
> > => >Said by Metallica in denying that the Napster situation isn't about money:
> > =>
> > => >. All of us would be perfectly happy serving
> > => >fried food or
> > => >mopping the floors of adult entertainment establishments
> > => >except for the fact
> > => >that we'd be taking jobs from our fans. And that's what this
> > => >is all about:
> > => >the fans.
> > =>
> > => >I mean, I had the notion they had become dickheads, but the fact that they
> > => >actually said that is the most gross suicide attempt I've ever seen.  The
> > => >sad thing is, it probably won't even work.
> > => >_____________________________________________________
> > => >"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"
> >
> > That "Open Letter from Metallica" popped up (in its entirety) on another
> > list to which I'm subscribed.  I'm gobsmacked that anyone would take it
> > for genuine, it was such a glaringly obvious parody/fake.
>
> Are you completely sure of this? Unless you can prove it's fake you can't claim to
> be right-Yes it's easily a fake, but I wouldn't put it past Metallica to say such
> things.
>
> > The authors
> > didn't even go to the bother of rustling up either a Metallica-related
> > postal or e-mail address to give it even a soupcon of legitimacy.
>
> Since I received only a short clip from it, how can you be sure that such
> information wasn't removed from your version?
> I never claimed it was authentic, nor have I seen this "full letter" (The comment
> below it was not mine either).  I forwarded it as it was relavant to the earlier
> discussion.
>
> > It just goes to show that critical literacy is alive and well and living
> > somewhere other than the Internet...
>
> Perhaps subjects such as Metallica are not to be taken seriously enough to demand
> a critical analysis of the material before posting. sheesh! I mean, my mind is
> usually elsewhere and I'm glad of it.
>
> >
> > (Up next: Metallica prevents Craig Shergold attain new dying wish of
> > most downloads for an individual from Napster---details at eleven!)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
> >
> > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
> >  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
> >         --- Frank Vincent Zappa