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The Beatles On iTunes
Yesterday Apple put a big old teaser up on their homepage for an unknown
announcement to occur today. Speculation ran rampant from the delayed
iOS 4.2, to iTunes Streaming to a release of the Beatles catalog on the iTunes
store. Well, it was the latter. They have 13 albums on the store now, and a $150
box set. So here's hoping that we get that iPad multitasking yet this November.
Oh, so now I've got to buy the White Album *again*?
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This is big, at least for Steve Jobs and Apple. Steve is a huge Beatles fan and the distinction between Apple and Steve Jobs is blurry at best.
If you don't already own every Beatles album, I feel sorry for you.
I'll try anything once. Twice if it tastes good
In a way, Apple and The Beatles are very similar. Both were pioneers in their industries. Both had throngs of loyal fans willing to do anything for them. Both are scarcely more than a thin veneer over the status quo.
It's a bit poetic that these two entities which have been at each other's throats over who has the right to call themselves a fruit now are hand in hand making money off the panting masses.
Apple's done it again.
Meanwhile, the CD box set is selling for $130 on amazon (and I thought I read recently someone was offering it for around $100). I thought downloads were supposed to be cheaper than the physical CDs.
Digital music store releases a new (old) digital product? This is their huge announcement?
Apples needs to get over themselves.
And yet there's the trademark dispute over the Apple brand, the Beatles owning Apple Corps, and Jobs having Apple Computer.
When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed through Apple's legal department and they objected that the new system sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical", under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7 and the Macintosh Startup Sound, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that wouldn't pass legal's approval, he remarked "so sue me." After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the legal department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.
Perhaps I just don't like the Beatles enough to think this is a good thing ... but ...
My solution to bands who 'refuse' to be put on iTunes, for any reason?
I don't buy their shit. I won't buy anything from the Beatles or Metallica ever again for that reason, even if they change their minds later.
You guys go cater to their self absorbed temper tantrums and sense of entitlement. I'll pass and buy things from people who actually appreciate my money.
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O frabjous day!
The Beatles are on iTunes! Truly this is a day that we "will never forget".
Move over 7/25/2006 (remember - the day that Metallica finally joined the fold?), because 11/16/2010 is the new biggest day in the history of music. Ever.
Remember folks, your task for this morning is to delete the 100-200 Beatles songs in your iTunes folder so that you can download the exact same files from Apple.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
Why would anyone give iTunes and Apple and the Beatles for that matter any more money?
I have already owned these as albums, tapes and CDs and I am NOT buying them again.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Interview question:
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This is their big announcement? Why should I care about whether I can buy music by some old hippies on iTunes, particularly when it's been available in a plethora of other formats for 30 years? Answer: I don't!
where's the .torrent?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
It's a testament to baby boomer narcissism that this is such a BFD from Apple.
Big new software update? No. Verizon iPhone? No. ZOMG U CAN HAZ BEETULZ ON TEH iPhone NOW!
If Disney opened up its vault, that'd at least make sense since they stop publishing a lot of their animated classics for long periods of time.
Why is this such a big deal? Its more expensive to buy these digital copies than to actually get album art, a box set, and perfect audio. This is hype for absolutely nothing new.
Apple is a leader in hyping announcements, but usually they actually deliver something that is interesting. It is precisely because of this that they continue to impress, however if we see too many over-hyped announcements which really amount to nothing their credibility will drop and people will stop paying attention. In terms of image and credibility this is on the level of antenna-gate. Yesterday Apple told us that our world (from their perspective) was about to change and they failed to deliver anything of substance.
Doesn't like half the money go to Michael Jackson's ghost or something? I guess its not a bad thing, hes going to need good heaven-lawyers to get out of the charges of molesting the Lindbergh baby.
Are they some new Boy band? Sorry if I'm out of the loop, Since I got to college I haven't had time for pop music since way before Cold Play hit the scene. $150 seems like a lot for such a new band, how much music could there be?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
by now, most people who wanted it so badly to be willing to pay 150 dollar for it have probably downloaded it illegally already.
This is only news because the rights holders have been unable to make a rational business decision for such a long time, while the fans have been forced to cater to their own needs. It's much more interesting to know that the Beatles recordings will start entering the public domain in 2012.
Sad when a story about the second time ever we've returned material from space, that was posted before this one, has fewer comments and interest than yet another itunes story, even on a supposed tech website. We're not what we were. What happened to us, we were trying for the stars once...
$150 = 150€ ? :-(
To him, this is an accomplishment that took a very long time and alot of meetings.
To me, this is something I downloaded years ago on bit torrent.
I love apple products but I'm gonna go out on a limb and yell forcefield of mega-pr on this one.
Meanwhile, the CD box set is selling for $130 on amazon (and I thought I read recently someone was offering it for around $100). I thought downloads were supposed to be cheaper than the physical CDs.
SUre you could get the box set and then rip them with a free ripper. Or you could pay a team of professional sound engineers $20 to work for months getting the perfect rip for you.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Actually, this announcement's hype is testament to Steve Jobs' narcissism, and whatever is the corporate version of "narcissism" (monopolism?) over at Apple Records. Apple Records has been suing and attacking Apple Computer since the Apple ][, claiming "trademark" rights that don't exist (computers aren't music, even when computers play or sell music). "Beatles on iTunes" closes the "Apple vs Apple" spat that has kept Beatles music from Apple users for so long, even when it there was no possible combo. Which is probably a lot bigger deal to Jobs and Apple Records than it is to the public, even if Apple's music distribution is #1 and the Beatles recordings are still among the most popular music in the world.
Because Steve Jobs is a Baby Boomer whose narcissism crossed with Apple Records' narcissism is bigger than even the narcissism of the entire rest of the "Me Generation".
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As it seems the record labels still have yet to figure this out. Weeks ago, I wanted to buy The Beatles albums. I went to iTunes. Nothing. I went to Amazon. CD only. This music I wanted for the road trip I was about to take. The solution? BitTorrent. High quality audio. Outstanding album art. Very little work cleaning metadata. Had this music been available on iTunes then, I would have paid for it.
Another reason not to use iTunes!! YAY!
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Last time I spoke with him, he didn't sound too clever. The six feet of dirt between us might have had something to do with that.
Steve Jobs was working, writing the words of his Beatles cat-a-log victory
part of his Apple Music lawsuit his-tory.
For years he kept working,
Buying the rights to those songs while he pulled out his hair
but now we don't care.
All the the massive egos,
Where do they all belong?
All the massive egos,
Redmond and Cu-per-tin-o.
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A decent new turntable with a built-in preamp is only $80. Assuming you already have speakers somewhere, you can head down to your local record store and pick up some Beatles reprints at $10 a pop. It won't give you their whole catalog for under $150, but it will give you the best albums and better sound.
If you like classic rock, you haven't heard it until you've spun it on vinyl. For music produced after 1995 it's usually useless, since it was cut digitally.
... fuck the Beatles.
Yay! Wow, the Beatles are finally available on iTunes! Thank goodness, because nobody has ever been able to listen to Beatles music on their computers. Their refusal to sell their music in one specific outlet has completely prevented all computer users from enjoying MP3 recordings of Beatles songs. Finally, a Beatles song will appear on an iPod for the first time. Finally!
iTunes says "This iTunes LP is only for use on a Mac or PC with iTunes 9 or later." Does this means that Apple are back in the DRM-mud?
Okay, so here's what I think... The Beatles music should be public domain. As in, it's owned by society as a whole. We're all familiar with it.
Beatles recordings have been for sale for decades. I don't know anyone who hasn't heard of this band yet.
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...Shirley.
You can't even create a daemon/service on iOS for iPad or iPhone. How bass-ackwards is that in this day and age? BTW, inevitable Apple fanbois, there's nothing wrong with daemons/services - Apple runs plenty of them on your phone for you already, they just don't let anyone else do it.
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Well played, Apple. You gabbo'd us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsnMGVJRE6g
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Gabbo
Yeah. If the J-Biebz ever has one song a third as meaningful as any song off of the White Album, I'll buy a hat and eat it.
The Beatles are like the last generation's Mozart, or this generation's Radiohead. The pushed boundaries, established entire genres with single works, and their music continues to be relevant decades after it was released to people who don't even speak the English language.
Bieber is another instrument of the music industry. Without ten producers and million dollar ad campaigns, no one would know his name. He will be replaced as soon as the hysteria winds down with another forgettable tween marketing tool.
The Beatles were artists.
That...doesn't make any sense.
Having a band like The Beatles on iTunes should send their stock skyrocketing. The amount of money all parties involved are going to make is going to be huge. If there's one band that people rebuy over and over again, it's The Beatles.
Except that many of their first-generation fans are now retirement age and just don't care to buy it in a new format.
If those folks had already re-bought it on every new format, then it follows that they already have it on CD.
Seriously, if you already had something on CD, why would you re-buy it on iTunes?
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People like to buy same stuff again because they want to buy good stuff. But no matter how good stuff it is, buying it again is just stupid.
- Repackaged but essentially same stuff doesn't help.
- Appealing to collecting hobby doesn't help.
- Buying it to someone else who's not interested doesn't help.
- If it's on sale but still costing more than 0$ doesn't help.
ONLY if previous copy is unusable or missing, only then it's within reason to buy a new one.
The Beatles on iTMS is a great example of holding out too long for some unknown reason; as others have said, anyone who wanted Beatles music on their ripped it long ago from the CDs they waited in line to buy because "the Beatles records are now available on CD!!!!!!!"
From everything I've heard, it was EMI and the Beatles themselves who apparently either saw no need to have their music available for download, or wanted some insane amount of money that it made it a non-starter. This was probably one of the rare moments where Steve Jobs was chasing *them* to do a deal, and they still held off.
I fired up iTunes and looked through the albums, mentally checking off the tunes I've been listening to for years on my computer from ripping them from my CDs, and I realize I have no need to purchase anything. Thanks guys, day late and a dollar short.
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I had that same problem with Einstein. Clearly, I'm much smarter than him.
which is totally what she said
What a disappointment. Thanks Apple. Great job getting everybody's hopes up.
Next time you tease people with a major announcement, at least let it be something that people will care about - like allowing people to use their iPhones the way they want without having to jailbreak.
"He was somewhat put out when they saw this as trademark infringement rather than a compliment"
cf Pystar and clones
Jobs is a wanker. He's all "oh, I was just complimenting you!" but when YOU done something HE doesn't like, well, there's no wrath like a Jobs scorned.
Oh come on. that's not a troll.
..but it turns out it's just another overhyped Apple marketing press release.
If Apple truly thinks that adding 40 year old music to their store is, music that has already been freely available in every conceivable format, is revolutionary...then Apple is truly out of ideas.
Seriously, is there ANY Beatles fan out there who didn't already own exactly as much Beatles music as they wanted to own? This is just a new way to pay more than you had to pay yesterday, for lower quality and DRM you didn't want.
Worst world changing announcement ever.
Nothing like stonewalling on a trademark dispute to lose your client 10s of millions in sales.
.. as the day Apple became a parody of itself.
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
Speculation ran rampant from the delayed iOS 4.2, to iTunes Streaming to a release of the Beatles catalog on the iTunes store. Well it was the latter.
You provided a list of three speculations. The proper term for the last item in a list of more than two items would be "lattermost".
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Ever since they put it on my iPod touch, the batteries last a good five hours, if that. Apps run in the background improperly when you exit them. You have to manually close them by hand every time, which is a huge pain. Apple says it's up to the programmers to fix their apps to not processes and drain the battery.
Problem is, all the apps do this. All of them. If I could find a way to turn OFF multitasking, I would love to. I can't listen to music much anymore because the battery is almost always dead if I forget to charge it every night. I used to go WEEKS without having to charge it, but if I happen to play a game of solitaire and forget to "close" the app, the player is almost dead a few hours later.
It REALLY stinks.
Michael Jackson owned the entire Beattles catalog. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the negotiations and who entertained the idea of releasing them to Itunes.
Since Micahel Jackson died with a ton of debit I can imagine the creditors trying to recoupe thier losses.
So the question I have is, who now owns the entire Beattles catalog?
About fucking time!
..but it turns out it's just another overhyped Apple marketing press release.
The words "overhyped" and "press release" were brought to you in the same sentence by the department of redundancy department.
AFAIK the "press release" was just a banner ad on the front page of the iTunes Music Store. It was the tech blogs who pumped it up to "Apple about to launch cold-fusion powered holographic iPod with direct-to-brain playback" fever pitch.
Oh, and I'd asssumed that the "Tomorrow is just another day..." tagline was a play on some Beatles lyrics or other (not that much into them myself) just as the image was a play on a Beatles album cover.
Mind you - how freakin' much for 40 year-old recordings!!!?
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
And apple ripped off Apple Records. Then, later, when all the fanbois were screaming for Jobs to get his kit off, they broke the agreement over the trademark abuse and started into the music industry.
And the same exact fanbois throwing their knickers at Jobs were complaining at Pystar for violations against, uh, sumthin....
Two faced little hypocrites.
That line from Men in Black has become so true now. When the movie was made the most compact form of music storage really was the compact disc. For much less physical volume you can now have a 32 GB memory card. With modern sound compression that's enough room for hundreds of albums.
If you're still lugging around the White Album on CD, it really is time to buy it again.
Who cares? Anyone from the younger generation who likes the Beatles downloaded their discography years ago. The older generation likely first bought their records, then their tapes, then their CDs. Who is the target market here? I don't know of a single person who was clamoring for this to happen. It's definitely not the epic event Steve Jobs would make it out to be.
fck the beatles, fck apple, fck consumerism, ban these sort of things to some site for geek stuff that really doesn't matter. Or give me $150 so I can get my copy of CoD Black Ops,
I've only been waiting for my mail delivery to show up for about a week, so fck them, and fck you too.
Now I get to pay $1.29 to rent "Honey Pie"...until my HD crashes, then I get to do it again! Hooray For Apple(& Apple)!
"Remember when I said I would never lie? Well, that was the first time."
Introducing iTunes vinyl. Digital downloads preserved with all the accoustic integrity of original vinyl playback in Apple's new vAAC format or something.
Returning audiophile sound integrity, ditching in-ear deafening buds for real sound scapes, external speakers and headphones with over-the-head cans. Now the World would be different.
WHO CARES?
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That is an interesting point concerning licensing. Compare it with Steam, where you can enter in the serial number for your old copy of Half-life and tada, it's like you had bought it from Steam. You can download it and play it through their service. Too bad we never got a serial number with our original Beatles purchases, like those boxed sets they released last decade.
once and for all: STFU about the Beatles!
I cannot be the only forty-something effing tired of hearing slavish, obsessive praise of a pop band that broke up forty years ago.
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Good one! There is no public domain; it is our society's answer to Emmanuel Goldstein ala 1984. Enjoy your serfdom.
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In other news, the Beatles also have 13 albums on the pirate bay. People have been long awaiting the day when they could download the Beatles in an electronic format, but now they can. And thanks to the iTunes software, they can now transfer them to their iPhones, iPods, iBetterThenYous, or whatever silly gizmo these soft-headed fanboys prefer. It's a great day for the Beatles, the Pirate Bay, and for News sites that have nothing better to discuss.
Is anyone else tired of these "copy the press release" stories? I saw this in the paper, I heard it on NPR. Really? This is news? Anyone who wants the tunes of the Beatles on their iPod has, by now, either ripped them from CD or downloaded the MP3s illegally or is too stupid to survive. Do we really need this joint marketing missive from Apple (Corps and Computer) trumpeted to the world when it's just drumming up business for two mega-corps and (the heirs of) some very wealthy musicians?
And, in the end, who really gives a crap? I've been listening to music for the past forty-plus years. I remember when my older sister bought "Meet the Beatles" and played it ceaselessly for weeks. I liked it. It was good music. They continued to make good music through the early seventies. But that was then. Believe it or not, there have been a lot of people making music since then that is just as good (if not better). By burying yourself in the past, you hold back the future. Move on, people.
That is all.
^^^ Seriously? You are saying that because he is dead he was not smart....
Um, QUE?
There may be a DVD torrent of the Song of the South floating around. I remember burning a copy for my friend a few years ago, watching it and not really getting why it was band. If I remember correctly, there was an animation in the extras that was somewhat dubious, but that could have been easily trimmed.
changing the settings
logging in and out (I even tried turning it off and then on again...)
sacrificing my first born
If this is the kind of stories I get from Apple Tag, I don't need em.
If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it.
Just really not my kind of music, I generally have a very diverse taste but their music just doesn't grab me and make me want to listen to it.
I feel that way about the Beetles, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, and a number of other "legendary" bands. I don't hate their music but I don't find it particularly interesting either. The Beetles were and are quite the cultural phenomenon - I get that. I just think their music is rather overrated. Not bad but not amazing either. Personal taste to be sure but I'm pretty omnivorous in my music taste so it's not like I don't like the genre anything like that. I've heard a huge portion of their published music as well so it's not as if I'm unfamiliar with their work.
I think they really wrote the template on how to make rock music that isn't just disposable catchy hits and could be something closer to fine art than just music to dance/get high/get laid to.
I would also say the same about Pink Floyd (who were recording (with Norman Smith) Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the Abbey Road studios simultaneously to the Beatles recording Sgt. Pepper)
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Since the announcement, Apple stock has dropped 2%. The markets were unimpressed.
Well after apples big announcement my wold hasn't changed and Ill forget about this in about one day what a waste of time.
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So here's hoping that we get that iPad multitasking yet this November.
I'll start with "Red Herring".
I'm pretty sure that was a reference to MiB.
I think they also did that joke on Seaquest DSV...
Bow-ties are cool.
Sound recordings are still subject to the copyright on the underlying musical work, which lasts the typical life plus 50 to 70 years even in those jurisdictions that give a shorter term to sound recordings. In the case of Lennon/McCartney compositions, this copyright belongs to Sony Music and the Michael Jackson Family Trust.
I find their music uninteresting and the hype annoying.
That's because you're too young to be able to see what an effect the Beatles had on music and indeed, society (actually, societies) in general.
Yeah, they even appeared on Doctor Who!
Bow-ties are cool.
George Harrison's All Things Must Pass is worth more than the collective whole of the Beatles catalog, imo
With or without Harrison's cover of "He's So Fine"?
Except the Beatles didn't have to resort to autotune.
But they did resort to autochorus.
I find it a bit strange that you could find the whole Beatles canon uninteresting.
Why? Admittedly it is very much a matter of personal taste but there are plenty of very famous bands whose music I find to be quite boring. Sturgeon's Law applies to the Beetles too, even if you like their music. I don't dislike the Beetles, but I wouldn't pay to hear any of their music either. Same with those other bands/musicians I mentioned. I'm more than willing to concede that they are talented but that doesn't mean I should necessarily find their work interesting either. Michael Jordan was by any objective measure a great basketball player but I find the game of basketball boring and him along with it. Nothing personal to him, I just don't like the game. Same with the Beetles. Regardless of how talented they might be, their music just doesn't resonate with me like some other music does.
The fact that the Beetles did a lot of variety doesn't by itself make any of it good. (note that I'm not saying it is bad, merely that variety != quality) Most good musicians try a lot of different stuff over their careers but most of it remains unmemorable. Nothing wrong with that. I think it is great that they try new stuff but I also don't expect much of it to impress me. Really good music is kind of rare even for very talented musicians working with the genre where they are most gifted.
Sometimes bands become more popular than their talents as musicians really justifies because being an entertainer is about more than just the music. The Beetles were more a popular culture phenomenon than merely a band and their popularity at times had little to do with them producing amazing music. The stuff they played when they first became popular was often positively banal - "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is a godawful song in my opinion, especially for a title track, but those young ladies screaming on the Ed Sullivan show weren't screaming because the music was so good.
John Lennon chose the hippie life, he chose some nutbag for a wife, and his songs were never quite as good as Paul's. source.
Maybe there are some nuggets left, but most of the releasable stuff was put out in the Anthology series.
That's actually not entirely true. A fair amount of stuff from the series was edited or were poorly-mixed versions from earlier abandoned projects, while some of the material was itself questionable.
There's at least 4CDs worth of GOOD stuff in the vaults
Jobs is Borging all the Apple x things. What's next, "BananaStation, a subsidary of Apple"?
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This is a day I have been waiting for and I am so excited it is here! How can anyone truly not want to listen to the Beatles while being available on iTunes. They clearly couldn't find any other way for them to appear for people to listen to (which didn't make any sense) but now the beatles can finally show people why they were, and are still one of the best bands ever to play on the planet earth!! The beatles effected the society of the world and the world of rock in so many ways, and some people will just not understand. Any person who honestly says how boring they are and uninteresting they are to listen to, seriously need to reevalute their view they have in the music industry, and maybe stop listening to rap all day and actually listen and understand the words that they actually sing. Just don't know how some people can hate on them, but hey, they are one of the best bands to ever play in this country :)
"All you need is love" - need I say more?
Worst world changing announcement ever.
Agreed. This article is:
+1 Informative followed by the...
+500 REDUNDANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My apologies for trolling and/or flamebaiting.
sigh...
What's a Beatles?
Think about it, I'm 23, I have a CRT television set that I may NEVER turn on out of necessity again, I use my 27 inch iMac, my iPod, my iPhone and my iPad for iEverything. I own well over 100 DVD's, all are ripped to my computers hard drive, the thought of touching a disc is laughable to me now :) Since I were about ....13 or so, I'd been able to download music online through P2P etc...over dialup, a REALLY SHITTY quality MP3 could have taken 10+ minutes to arrive...but I did it. I actually enjoy buying music online now, especially when its fast, and Just Works for a fair price.
....", it was a BIG deal for them, they saw it on tv, they didnt give a shit that they sat opposite it, that I offered to explain why THEY should have one themselves....they saw it on TV, and they were INTERESTED.
One of my favourite new artists is Drake. I have all his "mixtapes" (MP3's with Metatags identifying them as being "from the same album", what were you thinking?) and really appreciate the fairly recent trend of major artists giving away free singles online to build hype. Kanye West and "GOOD Fridays", Swizz Beats and "Monster Mondays" etc etc etc.
I saw Drake on some American television late night show...at the end, the idiot host held up a box made of plastic, it was ridiculous looking! Flimsy, it could break, the door could snap, the tines that hold the CD inside easily come off, making it useless for holding the disc....just terrible. Overall, it looked CHEAP, a mass produced bit of clear plastic, made in lots of a million, with couple bits of paper stapled together chucked into "the cover slot", yeah, you take the booklet out, you lose "the cover" for the case....
What a joke! What a low quality, USELESS thing! Who the hell would ever want that?
Oh yeah. Many older people still buy "home media". I'd been so self absorbed to not consider that *not everyone* buys music through iTunes. I find it hard to imagine people in their 20's not a) downloading Torrents for free b) buying the album for 20 bucks on iTunes, but obviously SOMEONE is buying modern albums on CD.
I think of my work friends, who are 50+. I got my iPad, and my iPhone before they were sold in my country, I imported them, in the case of my Original iPhone, I jailbroke it, using someone elses software, myself. My work friends were impressed...kinda....that I'd spend so much on a bit of metal and glass (which they probably find ugly, as they are Baby Boomers and can only appreciate shitty, slow old V8's with giant fins etc...), it is meaningless for them. I sit with them every day, for months, playing games on my iPad, using my iPhone, nothing, they dont care.
THEN, these devices are on television, for no bloody reason, for example, the Russian Prime Minister showed our countries leader the iPad, and BOTH of them eagerly told me "your tablet was on the news last night! The leader of
How many Baby Boomers are going through a END of life crisis? Who want to "feel young" again? Many may not have "been down" with this "iPod thing", they have no idea what Podcasts are, but now they will see "The Beatles, now on iTunes! Apple, WOW!", and they will WANT TO BUY the albums once more. They'll no doubt feel GREAT doing it too, especially if they go out and buy a new iPod Touch, they'll really feel like they are "in the loop", and with their favourite songs again too.
Yes, The Beatles on iTunes is not really a big deal for me personally, but I can *understand* that its a major marker in the history of music, of digital downloads being mainstream, of millions of older people, who all have credit cards and cash, willing to pay money for....what may as well be nothing, nothing tangible, but they HAVE their favourite songs again!
As it seems my generation are so often NOT buying music, and finding "alternative" stuff given away for free, away from "main labels" etc, as the recording industry feels forced to focus on over produced pop, "safe bets", then its a GREAT thing to introduce your product to MILLIONS of people who WILL pay!
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Thankfully, their reality distortion field is starting to break down. To further help with this, when Apple basically announces nothing (after such a teaser), please either mock or ignore them.
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Yeah, yeah. I can still remember how excited a guy in my high school class was about them appearing on Ed Sullivan. But geez. When I was a teen, I don't remember having the music of that exciting Roaring Twenties pushed onto me. I feel sorry for kids today. Me, I listen to di.fm trance stream most of the time.
Oh, so now I've got to buy the White Album *again*?
Well, looking on the bright side, if you already have 8 copies this one would be "Number Nine, Number Nine, Number...."
Is it possible to set up some kind of universal filter so that I never hear anything about the Beatles ever, ever, ever again? And preferably most 60s starry-eyed pop culture references as well?? I'll keep the Rolling Stones, Troggs and Yardbirds, and anything to do with politics that doesn't involve Abby Fucking Hoffman.
Oh and can the filter remove u2 and bono as well please.