In the spirit of last weekend's Pink Floyd deal, I also found this collection. Obviously only appeals to a certain target market - but 15 legal albums for less than $15 is a bargain in my book! (The first 5 of these are outstanding, with everything post black album being much more questionable - but still a few gems to find).
I wouldn't expect this to last for long, if it gets the same response as Pink Floyd's set last week.
Genre: Pop
haha classic :)
p.s. I'm getting $14.95…but definitely still worth it
The "Napster memorial Deal" is now over.
Now the set is $156.40.
Other sets that were $14.95:
INXS Digital Box now $93.85
Simple Minds Silver Box now $50.80
The Doors Perception Boxset now $91.40
Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box now $70.30
Did you collect them all?
Some remaining still:
BUSH - Digital Box Set $14.95 :)
http://bigpondmusic.com/album/bush/digital-box-set
Elvis Presley - 60 Essential Hits $7.35
http://bigpondmusic.com/album/elvis-presley/60-essential-hit…
Lars would be rolling over in his grave.
I wonder what the artists cut would be considering itunes is so lousy
Did he die?
He would…if he was if he was actually dead. He is more likely rolling around in his money.
I'm infused with schadenfreude.
I miss Napster
How much mb/gb all up?
1 megabit
100,000,000 megabits mnwuahahahahaha
1.21 GIGABITS!!!!!!!!
But seriously, 2.17GB in Total
New to the whole bigpond music but do we have to use its own player or some such? Do they just get downloaded as mp3 and we can add to itunes or..
I'm not the only Person wondering this. +
Yeah if it is another music player then as good as it is, I will be skipping it. Still gets an upvote regardless as they are (were) an amazing band and there is many hours of damn good music.
Oh the irony/hypocrisy of an iTunes users saying that.
Death to their Nazi ways!
Nope - DRM free, playable on anything. To download them efficiently you need their downloader installed, but other than that it's easy as pie.
Cliff Burton RIP. You kept them grounded. The moment you died, so did they.
LOL he was only with Metallica for like 2 albums hahaha
3 but yeah I get what you are saying.
Bingo. And after the 3rd it became pop-rock rubbish.
Justice was acceptable.
Black album was terrible, not this god like recording people treat it as.
Everything afterwards (except the amazing No Leaf Clover from S&M was rubbish).
Hey ozshark, thanks for the post, grabbing it now.
Spewin' last week, i ummed and aahed over the Floyd discovery set…and bigpond tore it down…aaah
What do you mean "certain target market"? One of the more popular and better bands of all time, genre or no genre.
Even Snoop dog said he is a fan, Metallica is just pure music
True. I'm not a fan, but I'm buying this just because they're so popular.
Last weeks offer: Pink Floyd, greatest band of all time.
This weeks offer: Metallica, greatest sellouts of all time.
HeHeHe. Good one. But please die now.
Though shall not hate on my favourite sellouts! 8D
Genres: Pop
OK, it appears to be 2-3GB in size, will report back when it finishes.
All 320kb MP3's, no DRM. This will definately be shut down quick!
2.17GB in total
Hmm seems like the album S&M is not included. Shame as it is brilliant. Metallica and a full symphony. \m/
Yep.. it's there. Volume 10 and 11.
Ah so it is. Such a damn good album.
Awesome deal. Just about a dollar per album for one of the best Heavy Metal bands. This just proves the statement, "Piracy is a service issue." Resonable pricing, an easy downloader and the freedom of choice to play them with any player I want and listen on any device I own.
Hopefully the music/movie industry understand that people are willing to throw money at them but not to be locked into a service or paying an arm and a leg for "special Australian prices" or being restricted to using only the devices they approve of. Don't fight progress!
"This just proves the statement, "Piracy is a service issue.""
How does it prove that? There's many reasons why people pirate, and having an easy to use cheap service won't stop that. I'm sure they will sell a few albums today to customers that wouldn't have otherwise bought them, but thats not the same as stopping privacy completely if this was the every day price.
There's many reasons why people pirate, and having an easy to use cheap service won't stop that.
I partially agree with your statement. Someone who doesn't want to pay for a movie or an album or a game would flat out not buy it regardless of how easy it was to purchase it and how low the price is. But I wasn't talking about these people.
My comment was aimed at people who actually want to pay for something and legally own it but they don't because it comes at a ridiculous price and with many restrictions and sometimes they don't even have the ability to actually purchase what they want.
Amazon MP3 is an example. There are many, many albums on Amazon MP3 that I want to purchase that are sold for $0.99 to $4.99 but I cannot buy any of them because it's a US-only service. What's my alternative? iTunes, Bigpond Music or Bandit.FM. But those same albums are either unavailable on any of these services and if they're available (mostly on iTunes), they're 4-5 times more expensive. Not exaggerating. That's what I meant by piracy is a service issue. If a great service is readily offered at a reasonable price, the incentive for pirating goes out the window.
So when a deal like this comes along, many people who are unlikely to actually purchase it would actually do it because it's an easy to use service and it comes at a great price. I didn't wake up today wanting to buy 15 Metallica albums but I did just that because they're a great band and this is a great deal.
In case anyone is wondering they are encoded using FhG at 320kbps it's pretty good quality and songs will be around 12MB
5 minutes = 12MB
yeh boy cheap as well done. loss leader for BPM? even if its at cost, 15 dollars to metallica / (their agent) is 15 dollars they wouldn't have otherwise.
Hey guys, awesome post (particularly after last weeks Pink Floyd bargain).
I thought I'd share a few more I found on BPM too…
INXS - Box Digital Edition (10 Albums for $14.95)
BUSH - Digital Box Set (4 Albums for $14.95)
ZZ Top - Chrome, Smoke & BBQ Box Set (80 tracks for $15.35)
The Doors - Perception (40th Anniversary Box w/bonus tracks, 92 all up, for $15.35)
Anyone else found any more? :^)
Elvis Presley Essential Collection 60 original recordings $8.90
There's a 3 album David Bowie Platinum Collection for $12.75 too :^)
After watching Inglorious Basterds on tv the other night, I'll buy this even just for the song "putting out fire with gasoline".
Bowie FTW!
Found another one.. Simple Minds - Silver Box (58 tracks for $16.50)
Brilliant - thanks for the post. Was considering getting some of these albums.
Awesome find, top quality first 4 albums are some of the best metal albums ever written, some of the others are a bit meh
An honest to goodness "LOL"
The epitome of corporate rock. I'll pass thanks.
Hey, sure, Metallica might not be everyone's cup of tea, but this is less than $1 an album, and nothing else matters.
What! No Lulu with Lou Reed. What a jip.
I'm assuming this is a joke,, :-)
No, they made an album with Lou Reed called Lulu…
This would probably have something to do with the Metallica contract with Warner finishing, so the other day they went independent with all their masters and videos
ANOTHER remastered package will be on it's way
Cool, I just clicked this deal over to '100'. Thanks for sharing OP!
Number one on big pong album list !!
So downloaded but they are in one big bucket in WMP - now to sort them into albums !!
This deal is closed, out of @texinick's list only The Doors 40th Anniversary set is still live … how do you go about finding these deals? I’ve had a poke around BPM and can't see anything obvious.
Oh the Irony!