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So, I blogged about CRM’s before, and how they can recommend more merch for your dollars to be squandered on. But, what happens when the product and/or your tastes have changed? Case in point: Metallica. I remember the good ol’ days of the underground “Creeping Death” demo. Then the rightful reign of the “Alcoholica” years, roughly from the mid 80’s to the early 90’s. Now- they sound like crap, and Amazon “recommends” the latest jackassery of Metallica’s “Death Magnet”. Oh boy, puh-leeze. It sounds like a few sound bites of old Metallica are mixed in with James trying to actually hold a real tune (instead of ripping your ears off with his previous  death roars) ,Lars plodding away on his drums to a different tune altogether, Kirk is trying to hold back an extended 80’s solo, and poor Robert has eff all to do but hammer away on the bass since he’s the “newbie”. Don’t get me wrong, I strongly recommend anyone with a drink or drug problem to go 12 step it. That is, unless they are a metal band. In that case, do not go to therapy and release all your demons (although the DVD coverage of it, “Some kind of monster” is hilarious in some parts), if that is what is driving your music.

I think my point here is that these recommendations need to be updated at some point. God forbid an actual human were to take a look, or a listen, to what is being recommended in Amazon. Come to think of it “God Forbid”, would have been a better recommendation for a CRM to make for me. Not quite Mastodon, but I shan’t be too picky.

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