The iTunes music store sells single songs at approximately the same price, with artist presented in more or less the same way. Apple’s (AAPL) App Store, however, is still somewhat like the wild west (at least as far as music goes), where the rules are being made up in real time.

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Popular movie reviews and news aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has teamed up with the cross-platform upstarts at Current TV to produce a half-hour hybrid aptly named “The Rotten Tomatoes Show” on Current.

In production now with a target air date of early 2009, the program will import the site’s Tomatometer metric and feature crowd-sourced lists and opinions, distributing them online and on Al Gore’s cable channel.

“These are film reviews for the audience and by the audience,” explained David Neuman, Current’s president of programming, in a press release. “The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current will be as much a collaborative process as Rotten Tomatoes.”

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Metallica, whose leaked album Death Magnetic is slated for a Sept. 12 release, launched a promotion on YouTube today featuring the band’s favorite Metallica cover songs on the site. Drummer Lars Ulrich introduces their selections in a video posted on the site.

“It makes us feels alive and special that you guys can be out there doing that cool stuff that you guys do … we’re mighty proud of what you do out there.” says Ulrich. Later, he explains one reason the band is doing this. “You’ve all seen enough versions of us playing ‘Enter Sandman’ and ‘Master of Puppets’ on German MTV for the last 10 years. Who needs that, right?”

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