my gym is playing,..... whatever i want

because i workout at home
as far as the slipknot debate goes,....
i didn't know that they where put together, does anyone have a link where i can read about it?
i absolutely loved their first cd, it was fresh, new and really brutal;
it would be interesting to know the development of the band if they hadn't become popular so quick
but their second cd (beware, just my humble, subjective, biased opinion following) is clearly new-metal, with the only pupose to sell a maximum amount of copies;
i'm of the opinion that they simply got extremely popular too quick, realising that they can make MUCH more money simply by denying their original principles and producing up to date new metal, requested by many different target groups (even lot's of skaters run around wearing slipknot shirts)
by the time i saw them on mtv they where dead for me, but i don't hate them as a band, or the people that listen to them, it's just not my kind of music anymore
and i don't think that you can hate them for becoming a new metal band, because if i would be in the case of slipknot (being unknow for a long time, and suddenly making the breaktrough; at least that's what i've read on their homepage) and i had to decide between being extremely popular and rich or being an underground band that sticks to their principles, i surely would NOT take the latter
as far as comparing slipknot to metallica, well,..... i don't think you can compare slipknot to early metallica (early metallica = before load), but nowadays metallica have changed a lot, they have become sell outs, like slipknot;
please remember, just my humble, subjective opinion