Originally posted by lukather/timmons
if you wanna do something with your playing I suggest burning your selloutica Cd's :)

Though I don't paticuarly like Metallica, I don't think calling them "sellouts" is even remotely fair.

To sell out, you have to change your sound/act for the sole purpose of gaining popularity. That means doing what people want you to do. Metallica has been doing what NOBODY wants them to do for many many years now. Case in point: Load and Reload combined haven't sold as many records as The Black Album.

I'm convinced that they're making the music they want and are acting as they please because that's what they want to do, not because they're motivated by money or anything else.

They're just not as good as they used to be.