Wasn't Metallica's Lars Ulrich the one screaming the loudest about digital downloads and the Internet being the demise of music as we knew it just a few years ago?
Well, now it looks like the Internet is a friend to the gigantic San Francisco-based metal band. Starting this weekend, audio files of Metallica's current live shows from their ongoing North American tour will be made available on www.LiveMetallica.com for digital downloading with the band's full permission. Mind you they are charging $9.95 with FLAC files coming in at $12.95.
So now he's happy.document.write(unescape("