OFF: Fwd: More Metallica/Napster

[Paul Mather]

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.  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.

It just goes to show that critical literacy is alive and well and living
somewhere other than the Internet...

(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