10 Legendary Musicians Who Fought Against The Music Business

There's a good chance that every single person in the metal community has some sort of opinion on Lars Ulrich. As much as he has kept the Metallica enterprise afloat for the past few years, he's clearly not the same drummer that we got to know back in the '80s, often making mistakes whenever he plays live and trying to soak up the crowd more often than he plays anything flashy. We can bust his chops for his fails all we want, but the real hatred all started with a little site called Napster.

After Lars found out that a leak of the song I Disappear was getting play on the air through the pirate downloading site, his decision to go to war against privacy made him look like the true villain of rock and roll, only out looking for money and not in it for the music business. For all of the flak that he gets though, Lars may have actually seen a legitimate problem facing the music industry that most of us weren't aware of.

Though Napster did eventually go under in no small part from the lawsuits Lars started, his mindset of focusing on how artists get paid actually became a bigger issue down the road, with Spotify only earning some artists pennies compared to what they used to get in the golden age. You may think that Lars is just some rich rock star who wants to pile more millions in his posh mansion, but most of us also don't want to admit that he may have actually had some good points way back when.