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Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour
An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins "Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to remove a series of 212 podcasts, each of which featured a different Beatles song and would have effectively allowed fans to legally download the entire Fab Four catalogue for free."
Recently, Paul McCartney said negotiations to get the Fab Four onto iTunes had âoestalled,â leaving some fans more than a little ticked that they still have to listen to the band the old-fashioned way.
What's "the old-fashioned way"? Bit-Torrent?
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Yeah, General Custard drinking from a dead dog's eye/nose would definitely be considered "wierd crap" in my book.
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Look, nobody calls book publishing "Alpha/numeric character distribution".
Am I wrong for naming content by its content (MIME) type? My mother asked if I would send her pictures of my vacation, and I told her "yep, I'll have those image/jpegs to you in a multipart/mixed by saturday", then she called me a human/x-weirdo and I modem/NO-CARRIER'd her! We haven't spoken since, but at first I thought you were her posting AC before I noticed your improper labeling of publish/multichar so you couldn't possibly be her. Besides, a human/female on http://slashdot.org./article.pl? No way!
You mean, remastered to push all the volume levels to max, eliminate the subtle instruments in the background, soft-clip weaker frequencies, and overall reduce the actual audio quality? I'd rather we ditch CDs and go to 96000Hz 24-bit DVD audio with freaking 120dB noise floor. Yes, I went there. No, vacuum tubes won't help. Neither will Monsterscam Cables.
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That's where I would fall, and I think even the poster that started this thread might fall into that category.
I do think the Beatles are vastly overrated though. Not to slight the actual Beatles, it's just that nobody can live up to the hype some of their rabid fans give them. If they did a show, resurrected John and George, Jesus came again & sung backup vocals, they solved global warming during the show & gave everybody in the world orgasms at the same time, they couldn't live up to the hype.
.At the time they recorded, there was nobody better. But since you're listening in 2008, .../p>
Dude, perhaps you should look at the calendar some time.
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Truly timeless, in the most literal of senses.
they perhaps weren't quite talentless, but they were as creative and artistic as Britney Spears Jesus H. Christ, -5 clueless. Have you ever tried TRANSCRIBING a Beatles song?
... gave everybody in the world orgasms at the same time, they couldn't live up to the hype.
...I'd be willing to give that a try.
Britney Spears has something in common with Mozart and Beethoven: No one has heard any of them perform live music.