METALLICA Members Talk About 'Record Store Day'; Video Available

San Francisco Bay Area's KNTV has posted a one-and-a-half-minute video report on METALLICA's appearance at Rasputin Music in Mountain View, California Saturday (April 19) as part of Record Store Day. The clip, which features short interviews with METALLICA members James Hetfield (guitar, vocals) and Kirk Hammett (guitar),can be viewed at this location.

Hetfield: "Record stores are disappearing, and we want them to stay."

"You can call it old school, or we're dinosaurs, or whatever, but I grew up going to a record store, hanging with my friends, just going through stuff. We weren't texting each other, what was the new thing."

Hammett: "It was a place to meet other like-minded individuals. You'd see someone in the heavy metal section that you never saw before. I would go up to them and say, 'Hey, man, you're into metal? I am too.'"

Fans reportedly began lining up before dawn, with the store handing out 400 wristbands for entry beginning at 10 a.m.

Check out pictures from Metallica.com, Wire Image, Getty Images, trucker91774.

Hundreds of independently-owned music, movie and video game stores across the country celebrated Record Store Day in honor of the culture and unique place they occupy nationally and in their local communities.

Record Store Day was organized by MonitorThis.com, the Alliance of Independent Media Stores, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, Newbury Comics, the Value Music Group of Indie Stores and thousands of independent artists from around the country.

The campaign, conceived last fall, aims to battle "a perception that record stores are something of a joke; like we are all dinosaurs stuck in the tar," says Eric Levin, an Atlanta retailer who heads the 32-store Alliance of Independent Media Stores.

For more information about national Record Store Day, visit www.recordstoreday.com.