Most people in the music community haven’t taken kindly to the seriously misguided (and straight-up illegal) clothing line Kendall and Kylie Jenner attempted to launch last month, which featured their own images and artwork emblazoned across pictures of music icons like Pink Floyd and Ozzy Osbourne – without anybody’s consent.

Quick legal action from The Doors, as well as a photog who took the snap of Tupac Shakur that was used on the shirts, saw the line quickly come to an end. But as Billboard reports, Metallica’s James Hetfield is really trying to press the point home, joining the likes of Biggie Smalls’ mother who labelled the whole affair “disgusting’.

“I guess what they were thinking is, ‘We can do whatever we want,'” Hetfield told ET Canada. “To me, it’s disrespectful.

“We’ve spent 36 years working, doing our best, to keep a really close connection with people [and] make every note count. And someone just throws something up over something that we feel — not that it’s sacred or anything — but show some respect.”

It’s the latest stand being taken by the man who famously took on Napster to fight against the misuse of musicians’ intellectual property, with the singer recently explaining that the Napster challenge was a “moral fight” rather than being about the money.

Check out his latest interview in full below.

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