Wow I'm usually on the "against Rick" side here as I think he aggressively threatens too many projects that are simply not costing him money. But in this case, I think a site blatantly selling scanned decals is in the wrong. And Rick (PPS) actually does a ton for us in the way of having a lot of parts available that would otherwise not be. I'd never try to argue that he is worthless. He is also providing a valuable service.

Those aren't the two parties he was referring to. Instead it would be PPS as party 1 and the movie studio or such (universal for monster bash, etc) as party 2. WMS gets paid still but from PPS as per their agreement.

I love the black album. And I hate justice. The mixing on justice is some of the worst in music history. It might be good if they say re-record the bass and play it at an actual decent level. Justice sounds terrible on any sound system.

The black album style at least retains Metallica style rhythm guitars. Sad but true is one of the heaviest slower songs I've ever head and the mixing on the black album is very good. I don't think metallica was ruined until after this.