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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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That's not really true, though. Every generation has its superstars.
The Beatles are just your grandpa's Justin Bieber.
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?
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I'm not a Mozart guy at all. I'm under 250 years old.
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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!
When you do that, though, you deny the Beatles their incentive to create the music in the first place. If you like the Beatles, you might want to think about the consequences of your actions, before you condemn them to a life of poverty and obscurity.
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The singlemost influential album and artist of the past 50 years? The one that not only changed the direction of music for decades but changed the culture of much of America and many other countries around the world?
1992: Dr. Dre's The Chronic.
End of story.
If the year was 1965, and we were undercover detectives on the hot rod circuit.
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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. Now get the fuck off his lawn!
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Seriously, if you already had something on CD, why would you re-buy it on iTunes?
It's digitally remastered, of course.
Down to a lower level of quality, obviously, but nonetheless digitally remastered.
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Be that that as it may, and maybe I'm A Loser, I just don't Dig It. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party but I Want To Tell You, From Me To You, how I feel. You'd have to be a Madman to deny their impact and they certainly caused something of a Revolution but I've listened to them, Not A Second Time, but a hundredth time, and I'm So Tired of their sound I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry. Maybe When I Get Home I'll have another listen and I'll Get Back to liking them. From A Beginning to The End they certainly wrote a lot of songs but that was a Long, Long, Long time ago. But We Can Work It Out. Everyone has their own tastes. You just have to Think For Yourself and Let It Be. The Things We Said Today may not be true in a few years. I could be wrong but, hey, That'll Be The Day!
Anyway, I'll Be On My Way.
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"The thing about 'Run For Your Life' is, I always hated that song..." - John Lennon
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I'm not a Mozart guy at all. I'm under 250 years old.
I knew Wolfgang Mozart. Wolfgang Mozart was a friend of mine. Beatle, you're no Mozart.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.