Continuing with our thoughts on the absurdly archaic attitude of Metallica, Mashable shares a story via Blabbermouth, regarding their thoughts on an early leak of their new album “Death Magnetic”.

“…it’s part of how it is these days, so it’s fine. We’re happy.”, says drummer Lars Ulrich

I suppose we’ll see how happy the angry black-clad rockers are come September 12. Mark Hopkins is right. If they don’t do gangbusters in the opening week of sales, you can bet the folks at The Pirate Bay will be getting a letter in the mail.