Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over

Hugh Pickens "The LA Times reports that after years of stubbornly arguing that iTunes was, in the words of singer Brian Johnson, 'going to kill music if they're not careful,' AC/DC has reached a deal with Apple to sell its entire catalog — 16 studio albums, four live albums and three compilations — through the service. AC/DC was one of the last high-profile holdouts from the digital music marketplace, outlasting the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd, all of which jumped into the realm long after much of the population had accepted the downloading future. Angus Young, AC/DC's lead guitarist (known for wearing a schoolboy's uniform when performing), had long argued against hawking the band's music because he didn't like the idea of allowing for individual song downloads — submitting that the group's albums were designed to be listened to from beginning to end. 'It's like an artist who does a painting,' he said in 2008. 'If he thinks it's a great piece of work, he protects it. It's the same thing: This is our work.'"

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Once old man said to me

[mapkinase]

Once old (and wise) man said to me: "people are not getting better with age". Now, old man myself, the wisdom of this saying is getting to me more and more.

With age we do not get wiser, we do not get better, we do not get stronger, we do not get more moral.

Instead of wisdom we get inability to learn, so we only can teach. Instead of getting more moral, we just get more nostalgic of the non-existent times.

By Time,
Every man is at loss
Except those who believe, do good deeds
And call others to Patience and Truth.