Slipknot's frontman Corey Taylor has opened up about Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich's legal battle with Napster back in 2000. During the Wild Ride! podcast, he said, “I remember everyone giving him so much sh*t ’cause of that. It’s scary. And I wonder how many people look back and eat a little crow because of that… ‘Cause he knew — he knew that this was the direction we were going.”
Taylor spoke on how he feels about streaming services now, saying, “It’s kind of weird, it’s kind of hard, because in this day and age, it’s really hard to know which ones of the f**king streaming services actually compensate the artists that they’re ripping off. It’s more important for me that people listen to the music. At this point, I’ve kind of made peace with the fact that there are various services who are just kind of screwing us, and until the legislation is actually enforced, which they passed under Trump — which I couldn’t f**king believe — they’ll keep charging us at that rate. But they’ve appealed that legislation. I don’t think the appeals will actually go through. They will raise the rates, and musicians will be able to make a living off their recordings again.”
