METALLICA's All Within My Hands foundation is granting $100,000 to earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela through longtime partner Direct Relief. On June 24, Venezuela was hit by back-to-back, devastating earthquakes, registering at magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, less than a minute apart. More than 600...
Credit where credit is due, that is a lot more than what most people have donated.
What is 0.001% of your net worth? I bet %wise you’ve donated more.
Fuck rich people who donate the bare goddamn minimum and expect us to all sing their praises.
I don’t think you understand what I’m trying to say. Most people (musicians, rich people, poor people) have donated nothing. 0% of their net worth. Less than a fart.
I’d love to see rich people take more responsibility and I agree that Metallica could give more too, but at least they gave something, so this is not the time to complain about Metallica specifically. Whine to… i don’t know… Limb Bizkit. Tell them that Metallica gave only 100k and it would look douchy to donate less than that.
I don’t think they need any publicity at all for such a relatively small amount of their net worth.