Andre Yoskowitz
5 Mar 2009 21:27
Lars Ulrich, member of the popular rock band Metallica, has admitted that he has 'pirated' his band's own CD, "Death Magnetic," and found the experience quite "bizarre."
Ulrich is known to the file sharing community as the man whose vocal campaign took down the original Napster, and he has been a staunch opponent of piracy ever since.
Last year, the band released their latest album ‘Death Magnetic,’ and surprisingly Ulrich noted: “If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. It’s 2008 and it’s part of how it is these days.”
In an interview with VH1’s “That Metal Show” this week though, Ulrich has admitted he 'pirated' his own album off a "file-sharing client," just to see how it felt.
“I sat there myself and downloaded ‘Death Magnetic’ from the Internet just to try it,” he added. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is how it works.’ I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download ‘Death Magnetic’ for free, it’s me.”
“We found it - this was like two or three days after it leaked. I was like, ‘You know what? I’ve gotta try this.’ So we sat there and thirty minutes later I had ‘Death Magnetic’ in my computer. It was kind of bizarre.”