In our September issue, we have a piece in Fresh on the Guitar Hero phenomenon. How big is it? Metallica released its new album, Death Magnetic, as a CD and a Guitar Hero download at the same time. Here’s how you can get yours.

Ironically, many fans have decided the Guitar Hero version of the album is preferrable because of the extreme compression on the official release. Here’s one analysis, complete with visual aids; there are other articles on this online, but they all seem to refer back to this one.