Finally!
I have most of their albums on CD and look forward to being able to grab the remaining tracks I like and not have to then rip them to my hard drive.
Unfortunately, iTunes seems slow as molasses at the moment and already crashed twice (bloated, horrible iTunes).
Never mind.
They even have the box set! At $149.00 with 14 albums, that seems like a steal.
So Apple’s day “we’ll always remember” is that the Beatles main catalog — the music we’ve all heard a billion times over — can now be purchased on iTunes! And I know the Beatles main catalog has been heard to death, but you really owe it to yourself to check out the gems in the Live at the BBC and *Anthology 1, 2, *and 3. And… though some people don’t care for it, their Love mashups really do breathe some new life into these old standards, so… uh… oh. I guess none of these recent releases are available. O-kay.
Well, since digital music on MP3 players is such a song-by-song experience, I’m sure that they’ll offer “single” versions of some of their music like “A Day in the Life,” “Dear Prudence” etc. for which I won’t have to hear the abrupt clipped fade-out into the mix… no? Well, I suppose that was unrealistically optimistic. Even though the late-80’s John Lennon: Imagine soundtrack included a Day in the Life in that form.
Well, with iTunes being one of the few(only?) ways to buy high-quality music videos, I’m actually thrilled that I’ll finally be able to buy a full set of Beatles music videos! I’ll just do a quick search… and… oh.
So this announcement is just “Hey we mostly plugged the most obvious glaring omission in our catalog since it’s launch, but there’s nothing here that you haven’t been able to get anywhere else.”
This will be one to tell the grandchildren about.
Frankly, I’m psyched (see my thread post a few minutes before this one).
I have a lot of their albums already. What I don’t have are a few songs from other albums and love that I can buy them and not the whole album (like only getting a few tracks off the White album).
So, for me, it’s a good thing.
FoxNews are all excited about it too:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/15/apple-itunes-gets-rights-beatles/
Manchester? :dubious:
For me, it’s certainly not a bad thing. Merely an irrelevant thing.
Maybe I’m just too young to realize how important the Beatles were but I just have to say “So What?” By the time I started becoming musically aware, John was already dead, we had Yoko making a steady stream of annoying sounds and “Wings” was filling the airwaves.
I’m 35 and still love The Beatles.
I can listen to their stuff over and over, get bored with them, then listen over and over again in a few years.
Exactly. Tell me when the Bee Gee’s catalog is available!
More power to you then. I’m not known for my good taste in music and I’m certainly not going to begrudge you your happiness.
I just simply don’t see it though.
For that money I’d want an actual box.
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For that, you have to pay…less. The actual physical media boxset is on sale at Amazon for $130 right now in both stereo or mono, free shipping.
No, it’s more along the lines of “Hey, we finally convinced the Beatles’ trademark holders that selling the music online isn’t some scary boogeymonster to be afraid of.” For years they were convinced that once it went online, everyone would immediately be able to steal it. They seemed to be fully unaware of the fact that you could digitize music directly from CDs and share it with your friends.
Gee, If only John and George were alive to see it.
And Paul. He was the first to go.
Any idea how long it’s an iTunes exclusive? I really don’t want to give any of my money to Steve Jobs.
If you want to buy it, why wouldn’t you just buy the physical media and make your own mp3s? For less money?
Don’t complain: at least they got the country right.
The convenience is nice. I hate going to a store, buying the CD, ripping it to my hard drive and then storing that plastic CD that I will never again touch, or take the time to sell it used somewhere.
I long for the day when all media is digital.