Send me a copy of your record, Ninjavenom, then I'll listen to you bitch until the sun comes up. Listeners' opinions aside, Metallica and the like aren't just making music because they're greedy bastards who know they can sell millions of albums. If that were the goal, they wouldn't have gone this long without releasing a record. Whatever anyone else thinks, the band is convinced that they wrote and recorded good music, and they did it because they wanted to make music. If money was the only concern, they wouldn't stop touring for so long to go sit in a studio, since they're big enough to sell out stadiums at $80 a seat. (THAT's the part that pisses me off) You're free to think their music sucks, but they're writing what they want to write from an artistic standpoint - if they were that greedy, they would go back to writing more songs just like the black album, but as they've said in countless interviews, they got tired of the same old formula and wanted to try something new. And they earned the ability to do that by making enough money to support them through albums that fewer people liked but were more fulfilling for them. Fuck your high-minded "sell-out" shit. Selling out is changing to suit your audience. When you change and it pisses your audience off, you're losing potential profits in favor of expression, which is what Metallica is doing.
I don't like St. Anger either, but at least I'm not so hung up on bitching about what successful people should do (I'm busy trying to be successful myself) that I can't tell the difference between manufactured tripe and experimentation.