The new Metallica DVD, an actual shiny plastic disc that you can actually hold in your hands, can only be sold online.
Are they nuts?‘Francais Pour Une Nuit’ is the first live Metallica release in 10 years yet record stores are forbidden from selling it.
I am not talking about a download here that you can view on your laptop or iPod. I am talking about something that can only be viewed after it is inserted into a DVD or Blu-Ray player.
A notice to retailers today stipulated “Having been a great success domestically in France, we have now secured the rights to sell this release internationally *_via e-retailers only. _*This is a strict condition of the deal that has been done between UMGI and Metallica”.
Why does Metallica keep biting the hand that feeds them? Remember when they sued fans for downloading their music? That was because they wanted you to be honest and buy their music in stores.
Now they are biting the stores, the very vehicle that supported them through their zany digital outrage.
To really rub it in the face of record stores, the stores today were advised that they had until the end of the day to order the title but if they do, then they can only sell it from their website.
Here’s an idea for retailers. Order the title. Display it in your store. When a customer comes in to buy it, get them to send you an email there on the spot saying they wish to purchase the Metallica DVD but for security reasons choose method of their payment to be in person in store. Last I looked, email is an online platform therefore abiding my Metallica’s stupid rules.
Francasi Pour Une Nuit tracklisting:
1. Blackened
2. Creeping Death
3. Fuel
4. Harvester of Sorrow
5. Fade to Black
6. Broken, Beat & Scarred
7. Cyanide
8. Sad But True
9. One
10. All Nightmare Long
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master of Puppets
13. Dyers Eve
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
16. Stone Cold Crazy
17. Motorbreath
18. Seek and Destroy
