If nothing else, Metallica know how to please their fans (aside from a new album). Over the years they've taken to posting up every single live show on their website for digital download, some for free and others for whatever fee they're charing. It's pretty cool if you were at the show or you're just a huge fan ad like that kind of thing. Double so because bootlegs can be a bitch to come by sometimes. So with that being said, the band will now be taking votes for which 27 of their lives shows they'll be pressing onto CD.
We've been extremely proud to offer virtually every show we've done in the past ten years as a download within days of the shows happening… sometimes even hours! Over the years we've been able to offer more download options adding HD audio and Apple lossless files to the mix, but we still get requests for the "old school" compact disc. To celebrate ten years of Live Metallica, we're going to make that happen! Starting today through the end of this year, every show that we've played in 2014 will be released on CD! We are gonna roll out three shows at a time on Mondays.
We want to keep it simple so we'll go in order of when the shows were played starting with Bogotá, Colombia, Quito, Ecuador and Lima, Perufrom the March South American run. Next week the next three shows will be available and so on. For those of you who want it all, we're also giving you a chance to pre-order a box set with all 27 shows included, which will ship in December. There's that special concept of a volume discount and you'll have a box to store all your CD's in. CD's will be priced at the very clever price of $19.81 a pop with the box set at $417.00 (spot the savings!) and you can place your orders at either LiveMetallica.com or in the Met Store.
And for you vinyl junkies, select shows will be released on limited edition 180-gram vinyl early next year. And once again, we here at your friendly Metallica HQ want your input as to which shows you would like to see on vinyl… YOU choose from the 27 shows we've played this year by voting for your favs here. We'll take the top four that receive the most votes and press them up for you to order in early 2015. Voting will close on September 26.
Let us know what you think and look for many more releases and some cool box sets in the New Year!
Check out their website for further details, but that's the basic announcement. Pretty cool! Again, people who are super into the group will love this, and people who are just casual fans will let it slide by like anything else that's meant for the big fan. They're also taking a vote on Facebook about which ones you'd like to see pressed onto vinyl, so if that's more your thing then get on it! Maybe they've trying to make the Guiness Book of World Records with this many released?
