Short YouTube review by Chris Collins complaining about a 2023 Metallica vinyl release: he praises the album artwork and the music itself but strongly criticizes the vinyl pressing quality, saying it sounds dramatically worse than streaming on his iPhone and is unacceptable at the $35 price point. He expresses frustration that the band/label appears not to care about vinyl.
This one is the one that pisses me off the most. This Metallica album. The artwork on here is incredible. It really is. It's well designed. But the vinyl's garbage. Can't charge us $35 for something that sounds dramatically worse than streaming it on my iPhone. I understand that you guys are a big business, but you don't have a singer who struggles with alcohol and put out a whiskey, which you did, which is odd. Super odd to me. And then released vinyl. That is garbage. If I stream it in here versus the vinyl, it's night and day. I would not. This the first of all, let me say the music on this album is incredible. Like Metallica maybe, maybe writing the best songs they ever have and the best production. And then just why, why, why do you not care about vinyl? Like, it's maddening.
