Napster Bad, iTunes Good!

It’s called The Complete Metallica, but wait, there’s more. And we’re not talking Ginsu knives if you order now.

Like the 2007 EP Live From Live Earth, and “I Disappear” from the 2000 “Mission Impossible 2” soundtrack. The band is also including eight bonus live tracks – “The Four Horsemen,” “Whiplash,” “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” “Creeping Death,” “Battery,” “The Thing That Should Not Be,” “One” and “ … And Justice For All.”

The Complete Metallica drops on iTunes March 31 and will be available at other online outlets April 28.

But the digital box set release is only one of the major Metallica events.

On March 29 Activision will release “Guitar Hero Metallica,” featuring 28 songs gamers can press buttons to so they may recreate the famous Metallica sound. Plus, on April 4 the band will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.

Metallica releasing a digital box set on iTunes is a far cry from nine years ago when drummer Lars Ulrich became one of the most outspoken critics of then-P2P file trader Napster.

Traveling from news show to news show denouncing those who would dare trade Metallica tracks, Ulrich became one of the most-visible heavy metal drummers in history, and was one of the first musicians to publicly express concern that free file-trading could hurt bands and artists as well as destroy the music industry.

Which is as good a way as any to segue to the video.

No, not a Metallica video, but a cartoon Camp Chaos released in 2000 depicting Ulrich and guitarist James Hetfield decrying Napster and all who traded on it. For nostalgia sake, we’ve included the vid below, but we have to warn you – the language may be a little NSFW where you toil.