METALLICA at WALMART? Honest Vinyl Record Review
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- You might say this is a hot topic. Metallica reissued 5 of their records as a limited edition at WalMart. Some don't care, some care...it is a battle of ethics, sound, prices, and everything in between.
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If you read on the inside of the vinyl close to the label, etched in it says “ made on the Metallica press” so the quality should be great
cool, thanks for that info.. to me the sound was very, very close. I just felt the op was tad bit louder. Could be the color vinyl.
@@BriansFunHouse color' in itself does not directly affect the sound quality of a record. ... Natural vinyl is a translucent white, while solid white vinyl has a colorant added, making it opaque. “Natural translucent white actually runs really well
Hi, greetings from Brazil. I just saw this channel right now, in 2024. After read the info you put here I opened my Ride The Lightning and a saw "made on the Metallica press". Thanks for this information.
Thanks for actually discussing sound quality. That's been lacking from every review of these albums
Thanks..
Wal-Mart has always carried Metallica. That’s where I got the first four albums when I first became a fan in the 90s.
Sound quality on the walmart Metallica pressings are actually really clean because Metallica owns their own pressing plant, so they actually pressed them and shipped them to walmart. They didn't use whatever pressing plants that Walmart uses for their own stuff.
For me quality was same but the mastering sounded a little lower on these newer ones.
A lot of them come from over seas like Germany
The music world is huge at corporate levels ,NOTHING is as it appears and if the BAND isnt complaining they commissioned it.TRUST me IN THE KNOW !Buy what you like, Like what you buy !!PERIOD AND DROP THE MIC !!
Totally agree, man \m/
My first and favorite album. Perfect blend of rawness and production inbetween kill em all(raw) and master of puppets(produced).
so true
Good video man. I hear what you mean by cloudy audio. I wouldn’t say cloudy, I’d say soft. It’s not as loud and crisp as it could be. It’s not to noticeable if you ask me. Plus you can crank it to 11 and annoy your neighbors. When I listen to metal the neighbors do too, and It didn’t detract from my enjoyment of listening to the albums. I’m in that situation of my town has a record store, but they don’t have any original pressing, and collectors aren’t going to sell them. So this is the next best thing.
Very good points
yup..overall still sounds good.
I was in high school from 86-90 and got into Metallica in 84. RTL was one of my first albums ever purchased. When I was in high school, Metallica was a bunch of nobody’s, and only myself and about four others in my High School even knew who these guys were. I was the only one who wore a Metallica patched up Jean jacket every day. I used to collect rare Metallica albums back then. I still have my collection stored away somewhere... it’s composed of Different colored vinyl albums of Creeping Death & Jump in the Fire as well as picture discs of the first three albums and whiplash, bootleg concert recordings (including Cliff’s last show), interview picture discs, double LP’s, etc... all purchased back in the late 80s. I remember When AJFA came out, we had about 10-15 more students in the school that suddenly became fans. I knew things would never be the same from that point on. Once they hit the mainstream and became popular (pretty much from 1990 and on), I pretty much lost interest, as the nostalgia of being in that small exclusive club of fans was gone.
I miss the 80s Metallica and how awesome it was back then, they were like our own little secret band that nobody else knew about, now everyone knows who Metallica is.
So true. It was a very underground type think. No mtv videos or magazine covers..just kids handing you tapes of great bands.
I feel the same way. I remember being one of the select few guys in my High School that was part of the outside bunch of burnouts. There was myself and about four others in my High School that knew who these guys were. I used to collect rare Metallica albums back then. I still have my collection stashed away somewhere. Different colored vinyl Creeping Death albums, Red vinyl Jump in the Fire, picture discs, Double LPs, bootleg concerts, all purchased back in the 80s, before they became well known.
"limited" but still available, year later and they're still stocking em
yeah..limited to 1 billion units probably..
Walmart always sold metal. I bought Napalm Death death by manipulation there in 94
interesting.
@@BriansFunHouse Cassette not vinyl though.
I bought Devo New Traditionalists limited edition and I have an original pressing. The original pressing sounds a lot clearer and louder. So you're pretty much having to take a chance
yes, the quality control isn't what it used to be at times. And also some are simply using a digital source instead of original tapes.
I think these metallica albums are just sold at walmart, I doubt metallica would let walmart deal with pressing it considering metallica owns the rights to their albums now and has their own vinyl press. I think they are safe to buy because of that, I doubt metallica would let a sub par release of one of their albums happen after all the work they put in the own the rights on Blackened Recordings (their own label)
good point, but it is my understanding that Blackened acts as a record company, but not a pressing plant. So i do wonder who they use as a pressing plant? Both Metallica and Walmart. Before this new vinyl revolution many plants closed down, and there was just like United in Tenn that was one of the few left. I think i read that there are around 20 plants today. Some obviously better than others.
@@BriansFunHouse i heard in an interview with hetfield, cant remember which one i will see if i can find it, that metallica got their own "pressing machine or equipment". So i think they press their own albums in house. I will look for the interview where he discusses this
@@colvinscorner that's the way to do it. I wish i saw this second coming of vinyl..i would have bought my own pressing plant :)
@@BriansFunHouse they use pallas pressing plant in germany
@@demarcusp359 thanks
Making money in a legal way isn't selling out. Making a piece of crap called St. Anger is an abomination and should bother metal heads more than Walmart selling great reproductions of these classic albums on colored vinyl. First, the albums sound great and the packaging is awesome. So go buy a dusty scratched original copy at Skips record Mart if you want I'm glad I bought these. I'm getting back into vinyl and I only buy classic LPs 180 gram. No Snap Crackle Pop for me.
so how do you really feel about St. Anger. I haven't really ever sat down to listen to it. I don't mind a little pop..it reminds me i'm listening to a record. Sort of like when i go see a band live and don't mind they mess up or the sound is a little off. It reminds me i am listening to a live band play music.
@@BriansFunHouse Well if you really want to know. Metallica shouldn’t have recorded that album in my opinion. James was going through hell trying to deal with alcoholism and trying to get his life and priorities in order. He was in a crisis and that made it impossible to focus on making a great record. The songs were recorded and performed terribly. James voice sounds weak and strained. Lars drums are very tinny sounding. The guitar sound sucks. Basically it’s their worse album and I never listen to it. All my opinion though I think I’m right. That doesn’t mean others won’t enjoy listening to James howl like a sick coyote and Lars bang on some garbage cans. It’s not for me.
@@Vinylfiend60 i have played it via youtube twice and i just can't get into it much..so many other great classic Metallica songs to listen to, why waste time on stuff i don't really like.
@@BriansFunHouse I agree. Why listen to that terrible album when there’s great stuff from that band. I’m a huge Judas Priest fan but I never listen to Nostradamus. I like maybe two songs the rest is boring.
Also thanks for the sub. Metal up your Walmart had me laughing hard. I got two more Hardwired and the black album, and plan on showing them off.
i found Hardwired yesterday...i might be out of luck for Masters and Kill 'em All.
@@BriansFunHouse I imagine Master was the first ones to sell out.
Glad to have all the first pressings but if I wound up in a Walmart I would probably buy these reissues they look pretty cool
they do have a nice look to them.
Maybe not for Metallica, but bands do that limited release thing and not a "crapload" of them so they don't flood the market. Nothing looks worse for a band than to put out a vinyl, charge say $25, then its all over ebay & discogs a year later for that price or less. Its todays version of the punch out record / bargain bin. Thats why there is so many different colored vinyl. Death puts out 1000 records of "Leprosy" on, I dunno, Stomach Bile Yellow. If it sells quickly, they will press another 1000 on, oh lets say, severed artery red. That one sells half as fast, then they know not to press any more.
If they just reissed Leprosy on black vinyl & made 10k of them, they'd be stuck with a garage full of vinyl and they'd be all over the secondary market for cheap. But doing it the first way, they have made money and the vinyl keeps, and even increases, the equity and not become almost valueless.
And it gives us metal vinyl dorks something to brag about & talk shit about 😄
that is true..have a record in the dollar bin aint cool..but having a "limited" edition get in there would be embarrassing for sure. i love metal but im not a dork, cause all the girls in my Wednesday night book reading club say im cool.
Wal mart has been selling Metallica for decades.
Cassetes and cds.
They were also only clean versions for a while.
....And Justice For All is so hard to find. I regret not buying a copy when I saw it at my local Walmart. Now it fetches $50 Or more on mercari or ebay.
Have you checked lately...as walmart restocked, so check again as well as the secondary market price went down since they did.
My Hardwired copy had skips in 3 songs right out of the package. I cleaned them multiple times and no luck. I’m returning them
that sucks..yeah i have had a few of the newer vinyl records (wal mart and other places) skip more than my old ass over played records. Not sure what is going on these days.
I would have loved to have gotten these, but I bought the box sets instead, so I couldn’t justify buying the same albums again, just because they were a different color. Those are cool, though.
Awesome review and rock on for taking the display! 🤘
thanks for watching..and yeah i'm a rebel :)
On the point of walmart ... Do you remember when everything they sold was made in America? Probably about the time ride the lightning came out.
So true
I was just going to mention this fact. In the beginning of this video, he says that Walmart was getting their products from all over the world for dirt cheap but actually I remember when nearly EVERYTHING being sold in Walmart stores were made in the U.S.A. and they prided themselves on it. So Walmart was destroying local businesses despite the fact that all of their merchandise was being made right here.
@@devildozer as well as walmart got caught "mis labeling" some products and would skate around the issue if products were assembled here but made with foreign parts. All in All they did more harm than good through the eyes of local businesses.
@@BriansFunHouse Scandalous indeed. I always thought that whole "designed in the U.S.A., made in China" thing was for suckers.
Out of everywhere these could've been sold, they choose Walmart, Bru. Honestly, I'm gonna stick with the Digitally Remastered Vinyls
i like my early pressings, but really most of the time i'm listening to Metallica is simply off my itunes.,
Nice tuxedo cat! (I have one myself)
thanks, yeah Sasha is the jerkiest cat i have ever owned (always knocking stuff over and bothering the dog), but oh well..some cats are just born that way :)
Looks like your cat is a metal dude too : ) Great video man \m/
6:48 dang that 😽 just marked your recor. . . . . vinyl
yeah Sasha bad kitty does that all the time, but never leaves any actual markings..like a pretend marking or something. she's odd.
LPS AND CATS.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT
it is a constant war..day after day after day after day after day..
@@BriansFunHouse I FEEL YA DAWG
And apparently everyone vis buying them.
I was a good review I have the old Megaforce Ride the Lightning and Killem all Megaforce. I went to Walmart yesterday looking to see if they had them and they were fresh out but they did have that blue Metallica Ride the Lightning divider and if I see them restock I'll pick up an album and grab that divider 2
sounds good..thanks for watching my video
If you look real close towards the inside of the vinyl it says “vinyl up your ass” as if it’s sketched in to the disc.
nice
Dude. That looks like a paper inner-sleeve. Why?!?
i do see online that some think the paper will scratch the record (they use rice or other) but i have never had a problem with paper inner sleeves doing damage or adding that much static. I collect records and do my best to keep them clean, but i just haven't seen any cause to go out and buy the best of the best for any of them.
Even Stevie wonder couldnt read that.
He says that like hardcore punk rock is good. Buying in isnt selling out.
Metallica is not a satanic band
yes, true
They've always sold Metallica also censoring all CDs is a myth. I've found. CDs throughout the years that were uncut.
both target and walmart have had "clean" versions of cd's. Hard to find, but they are there with censored lyrics.
@@BriansFunHouse but it's always the consensus that Wal-Mart only sells censored CDs I've found some that aren't. I think it has to with some smaller bands fall through the cracks. It was mostly rap. Funny thing is I've only seen uncensored rap records there.
😁 METALLICA + WALLMART = 💜
corp reality don't fool yourself
too much of blah-blah-blah. dislike
Cry about it
@@TheGreenDoggoOfWisdom sure