TheLizard Posted November 16, 2010 Report Share Posted November 16, 2010 Apple announced Tuesday that the Beatles' recordings would be available for purchase on iTunes, after a day of speculation about what the company's iTunes-related news would be. At 10 a.m. ET, the group's 13 original albums, the two-volume Past Masters compilation, the 1962-66 and 1967-70 collections became available from the iTunes' Store as albums or individual songs. Also available is a digital boxed set featuring a video recording of the group's entire first U.S. concert in 1964 — and that concert can be streamed for free from the iTunes site through the end of this year. "We're really excited to bring the Beatles' music to iTunes," Paul McCartney said in a statement. "It's fantastic to see the songs we originally released on vinyl receive as much love in the digital world as they did the first time around." "We love the Beatles and are honored and thrilled to welcome them to iTunes," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "It has been a long and winding road to get here. Thanks to the Beatles and EMI, we are now realizing a dream we've had since we launched iTunes 10 years ago." By late Monday afternoon the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the situation," said the announcement would involve the Beatles' digital catalog. The paper said that the deal was being negotiated as recently as last week between Apple, representatives for the Beatles and their record label, EMI. Apple and the group have had a long and often fraught relationship, and not just because the computer giant and the Beatles' custom label share a name (which was the cause of the first legal action between the two companies, in 1978). Due to the complexities of the Beatles' finances, the group has been late to many developments in the music industry: Its catalog was not released on CD until 1987, and boxed sets of unreleased material were not released until the mid-1990s, after being available on bootlegs for decades. When the group's catalog was finally remastered and released last September, a press release simply said: "Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue. There is no further information available at this time." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 It was nice seeing The White Album and Sgt. Peppers in the top 10 downloaded albums today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 "It has been a long and winding road to get here." Really Steve Jobs? Really? That was pretty bad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted November 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 He wrote that pun with a little help from his friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 At least The Beatles can't say of their fans on i-Tunes "you never give me your money." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted November 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 And now that you can put all the albums on an iPod instead of a bunch of CDs you don't have to carry that weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 And you can listen to them eight days a week!... Hey I like this game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Somebody please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 *as Penny Lane rushes through strawberry fields to find an ipod to download "From A Window" into her windowless submarine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_M Posted November 19, 2010 Report Share Posted November 19, 2010 Yesterday All these downloads seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to play Oh, I believe I'll pay to play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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