Sorry. You’re still probably stifling laughs at the notion of stopping illegally downloading stuff just because iTunes and Apple have brokered a deal with The Beatles. Really, is this big news to anyone at all?
Of course, Apple have been hamming it up for the past 24 hours, promising to blow our tiny little minds out, but they haven’t. Just about everyone with the slightest of interest in popular culture assumed that The Fab Four would end up having their back catalogue on iTunes soon enough.
This is clearly a move to try and top the Glee lot from being officially better than them. It’s painfully obvious.
So yep, if you want, you can go buy The Beatles? back catalogue from the iTunes Store.
Albums are ?10.99 each with single tracks available for 99p. If you prefer, you can buy the whole lot in a digital Beatles Box Set which is available for ?125 on the store, with all 13 studio albums, both volumes of Past Masters and all included artwork, photos and notes.
Oh, and there’s a video of the band?s ’64 Washington Coliseum gig.
Righto, now go and get on with your lives. Nothing much to see here at the moment, apart from the opportunity to buy a load of music you probably already own.
Arthur ASCii says
As soon as I heard about this announcement, I had a vivid image of Jobs and McCartey standing up on stage, taking it in turns to sniff each other’s farts then gush over the bouquet.
Cookie Monster says
A real possiblity, especially given that Ringo’s invite would be lost in the mail. Jobs would be tearfully heaving while sampling a “ringer”, surely. Jobs, on the other hand, has had his bunghole sewn shut, least that’s what I heard, so Paul would have it easy.