Notorious for their anti-digital music piracy stance, heavy music icons Metallica have finally allowed their music to be sold on iTunes.
Billboard reports that on July 25 the band, who were one of the major holdouts on iTunes, finally put their songs up for sale individually in Canada and the US. Whole Metallica albums were previously available as digital downloads. Now you can buy single tracks from their first four albums 'Kill 'Em All,' 'Ride the Lightning,' 'Master of Puppets' and '...And Justice for All'. That means no more skipping past 'Orion' on your iPod.Metallica's outspoken drummer Lars Ulrich was notorious for trying to sue file-sharing network Napster to stop fans getting Metallica downloads for free. Although this might seem hypocritical, since the band's popularity was built on bootlegged tape trading in the '80s, it's a surprise that it has taken the band this long to try to earn more money through the most mainstream of digital downloaders.
Now that Metallica are selling their songs via the largest online music retailer, big acts still resisting include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Garth Brooks.
