In a video blog entry on metal outfit Megadeth’s official site, shaggy-haired frontman David Mustaine has described those who refuse to embrace new digital publishing methods as "old ****ing dinosaur bands."
Megadeth, naturally, considers itself pretty forward-thinking in this regard: its album Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? has been released as Rock Band DLC.
"In fact, I think the advent of these new games and YouTube and MySpace and being able to upload your music — it’s the way of the future," Mustaine declared. "These old ****ing dinosaur bands that don’t want to put their music up on iTunes or have anything to do with you guys doing games with Rock Band and stuff like that. It’s just stupid. You know, just have mercy on them [the old dinosaur bands] and feel sorry for them and buy our stuff instead."
Well quite. Mustaine also revealed that while Megadeth has no plans to release the much-loved Rust in Peace album for Rock Band, he would "like to talk to them [Harmonix] about that." We’re sure Harmonix wouldn’t mind talking about it either.