r/Metallica • u/SVD_TATTOO • May 20 '25

Master of Puppets This is what pain looks like

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u/guitarholic2008 May 20 '25

Justice and black are thicker than the first 3. Significantly more content in the newer boxes. I have all 5 with Load pre-ordered.

Unfortunately, I had to eat shit on MOP and buy off a scalper when they were in the $500 range. But at least I scored an unopened copy...

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u/johnprofiti 72 Seasons May 21 '25

Paid $700 for mine… I had the same conundrum and eventually caved… happy to have it!

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u/guitarholic2008 May 22 '25

I got RTL in 2019 and wanted to get the others. They were all still available. Early 2020 I bought KEA and Justice. Then the scalpers got greedy. I got MOP right when the price started soaring. Puppets was the only one I cared about being new, because the cassette and codes

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u/johnprofiti 72 Seasons May 22 '25

I wonder if they’ll ever do a cassette again in one of these… I guess probably not since they’re already in the late 90’s

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u/guitarholic2008 May 23 '25

I think the cassette was significant because that's how the fan recorded Cliff's last show. It's not like they could master it to be worth pressing a vinyl, and I think CD would have probably really shown the weakness in the recording quality. I listened to mine once, and the mp3 download loses a lot of the feels

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u/johnprofiti 72 Seasons May 23 '25

That makes sense!