Originally Posted by edwardc77

What I’m saying is that nowadays there are way too many people trying to act cool and knowledgeable declaring that they liked Metallica before they became really big, and distanced themselves from the band only after Metallica became famous and “sold out” in the 90’s.
And when I say way too many people I mean something like one Metallica fan out of 5 almost.
I only stated that this is statistically improbable due to bands small fan base in the early 80’s.( 500 thousand album copies sold versus the 80 plus million copies of today).
So I assumed that most of these people are lying and actually started to hear about the band only after the mass exposure of the Black Album.
I hope I made myself understood.