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.

Comments

Re:White Album

[hedwards]

I'm pretty sure that was a reference to MiB.

Re:Cheaper to buy CDs

[SicariusMan]

I don't know about the CD set, but the iTunes version has the iTunes LP extras including two of their original concerts. I'm not a Beatles guy at all, as I'm under 35, but I do respect the influence they've had on music.

Re:If you don't already....

[Anonymous Coward]

Every note the Beatles played isn't sacred. They were a good band. Some of their music still holds up well. But they're not Gods. Most of their stuff is pretty forgetable. Your music taste isn't any better than the next guys except for in your own mind. Get over yourself.

Re:Sosumi

[slim]

Twas a piece of historical trivia.

And the Sosumi anecdote is funny, whereas the iTunes bit is not.

Re:Lame non-news

[airfoobar]

Not if you are in the UK, where it's 50 years from creation of the recording.

Re:Who cares?

[SydShamino]

The actual Beatles - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr - have nothing against iTunes. McCartney's music has been available there for quite some time.

They lost control over their own music long ago. So you can avoid giving any money to the owners of the Beatles catalog, sure, but your rant about the artists' "self absorbed temper tantrums and sense of entitlement" is unwarranted.