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Nov 04, 09 - 09:59 am Comment from: Jubei

No iTunes, No Sale!

Too late. You guys screwed around too long, got the music by other means.

Good luck with that one. Again they're trapped into the idea the people want everyting, sorta the album mentality. I like the Beatles but 279 is a bit much for more than I want. Bring it on iTunes song by song, yeah?

$280 is enough to be assassinated for!

Nov 04, 09 - 10:07 am Comment from: RamaFan

I'd love to buy this; I'd love to have all the liners and everything; and all that is probably actually worth $279.00 (to me at least)....but I've already got 80% of these albums I bought and then ripped for my iPod. Oh! the pain....why did they wait soooo freakin' long to do something like this.

Not easy to drum up that kind of dough!

All our songs for $280! My sweet Lord!

Love My Dough

Nov 04, 09 - 10:13 am Comment from: balanced

Wow MP3! What's next 8-Track.

Nov 04, 09 - 10:13 am Comment from: KillBill

Buy it... grab the files, then sell it...

Yep the Beatles' mismanagement team really thought this one through didn't they?

Prying the physical media from their cold dead hands...

What is MDN's obsession with the beatles and fat hypocritical republicans?

They'll sell dozens and dozens of these for $280....

screw those money grubbing whores....any music I wanted of theirs, I found other (free) means of obtaining...and it's a good thing because they are rarely ever played...

I only want some songs and I only want to pay 99¢ for each that I choose to buy.

Nov 04, 09 - 10:23 am Comment from: iPhoner

$280? Is this an Onion article?

You'd have to be an absolute Beatles fanatic to consider this. But then again - MJ's new movie displaying nothing but rehearsals is #1 at the box office so I guess the zealots will pay.

Nov 04, 09 - 10:26 am Comment from: Predrag

And the old saying goes... "how many times do I have to buy The White Album?"

I'll try and count it here:

1. Original LP
2. 8-track
3. Compact Audio Cassette
4. CD
5. Digital Audio Cassette
6. MiniDisc; and now
7. USB (FLAC and MP3)

Did I miss a format?

Nov 04, 09 - 10:26 am Comment from: Mac-nugget

Wow $279 dollars. That is a bit steep for music that has been out of fashion and over exposed for more then 35 years.

Nov 04, 09 - 10:29 am Comment from: silverhawk

Predrag
Didn't you have a cassette recorder so you could dub to cassette from LP? Everyone in the 80's had one. I had a double dubbing cassette player.

Nov 04, 09 - 10:30 am Comment from: Connor MacBook

@Raskol

Are you lipophobic?

Does anyone else not think that the apple-shaped thing is a bit of a slight to Apple? I know their label is "Apple Records" but releasing their songs in digital format inside an apple? I don't know...

Personally, I could care less whether the Beatles come to iTunes. It's completely their loss.

--mAc

Nov 04, 09 - 10:33 am Comment from: Mac-nugget

Anybody willing to pay this amount is a big fan, so they probably already have there music in a digital form. This is plain dumb.

Betcha the audio files are embedded in the Flash application and can't be extracted or played anywhere else.

I'll wait.

Is Brian Epstein still their manager?!
- Sitting in his office by the Underwood typewriter and the telegraph machine, listening to vinyl records, a quarter taped to the needle-end of the tone arm?

That shipped sailed a few years ago.

There are many Beatles songs I'd like to own, but certainly not $280 worth (plus tax!).

I do believe that artists and their families deserve the money.
And when the Beatles' tracks are on iTunes, I'll be buying their songs 1 or 2 at a time.
I don't know how many in total I'll end up buying.
It won't be $280, but it also won't be zero, which is what they're now getting from me.

ruh roh

how long till this is a mainstream thing?

Nov 04, 09 - 10:36 am Comment from: Predrag

iPhoner:

I don't think that many Americans (and others) are zealots. There was always this fascination about MJ, and it really doesn't matter that it was MJ anyway. When you make a documentary about some celebrity's final weeks of their life, it will attract heavy numbers of people. Much like reality TV brings people in. Ordinary people love to watch others' private lives. And when they know these lives are just about to end, they like to watch even more. Add to that list the true fans of MJ (of which there are many) and the No. 1 at the box office isn't much of a surprise.

$99 would have been perfect. A great stocking stuffer for baby boomers everywhere at Christmas.

Nov 04, 09 - 10:41 am Comment from: January 24, 1984

Fool on the Hill.

It comes complete with honourable DRM too!

You just "gots" to bring the political thing in, huh, Raskol. Can't breathe without slamming those fat cats . . . like George Soros, and John Kerry, and John Corzine, and Al Gore, and John Edwards, and Nancy Pelosi, and Peter Lewis, and Warren Buffett, and any Kennedy, and Neil Hunt, and Larry Ellison, and Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, and Bill Gates, and Herb and Marian Sandler, and Stewart A. Resnick, and Tim Gill, and Michael Moore, and . . . .

Oh, heck, those seem to be fat feline LIBERALS, don't they? Dang. I thought it was the other side with all the money. Apparently not anymore, huh?

Predrag:
You forgot reel to reel

Nov 04, 09 - 10:53 am Comment from: iPhoner

@ Predrag

Well said. I knew the Zealot word was gonna' get me in trouble!

Nov 04, 09 - 10:55 am Comment from: Follower

Compared to recent high-end offerings from Apple Corps , this isn't really that bad. Yes, it's for collectors only. There are enough of them that things like this make money.

mAc-warrior: The rights to the case design are ownedby Apple Inc. of Cupertino. They are in charge of many apple-based logos. Certain ones, primarily those of an unbitten, photorealistic green apple and its sliced-in-half variant, are licensed for the exclusive use of Apple Corps Ltd. of London.

Yes .. $99 would have been a fair price for all this. But $279 is only
for the fanatical Beatles yahoo. I have most of the songs already.

Nov 04, 09 - 11:20 am Comment from: zmarc

I don't own any Beatles' songs. I'd like to, but I've never seen them for sale anywhere. I looked at a Best Buy a few years ago and couldn't even find a CD. Now I buy on iTunes and they aren't there so they get dough from me. Three hundred bucks is absurd.

@Pedrag
Over here in Europe we love FLAC. FLAC has become the standard for streaming music to network players and hi-fi systems. The fact that iTunes does not play FLAC makes it easy for competitors.
And then there is DLNA coming that allows people to stream all media content directly from the computer or a NAS to a TV. No hardware like Apple TV needed. Apple is not part of the DLNA community.

Nov 04, 09 - 11:36 am Comment from: The Other Steve

* I'm glad they included the above songs on "The Beatles' entire - catalog"

* I was thinking of buying some of the Beatles albums I didn't have when they got around to making them available in iTunes, but I found a couple of weeks ago my sister already had them and now . . . too late.

* I wonder how much the Beatles had to pay Apple for the use of the Apple logo?

• Did you know the "Beatles" isn't in Apple's dictionary?

Nov 04, 09 - 11:36 am Comment from: ron

I have 'All' the Beatles stuff on my iMac - have had for years.

Screw Paul Mc.

279 or 1279 it is irrelevant. Only Beatles collectors will buy this. The FLAC and MP3 is brilliant since both formats are easily transportable and playable. FLAC can be quickly and losslessly converted to Apple Lossless format via Max.app.

IMHO, the beatles will never be out of style, are brilliant artists, brilliant at making money. All the arguments to the contrary are inaccurate.

Nov 04, 09 - 11:40 am Comment from: ron

"What is MDN's obsession with the beatles and fat hypocritical republicans?"

Most of the people on welfare and food stamps seem to be more obese than the general population. Are they Repubs?

Nov 04, 09 - 11:42 am Comment from: The Other Steve

Just in time!
My old 45's are starting to skip and sound scratchy.
Besides, carrying my record player around on my belt is getting to be a bit difficult.

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, life goes on . . .

Nov 04, 09 - 11:45 am Comment from: blucaso

Yeah, Predrag, I actually have the original pre-recorded version of the White Album on reel to reel - which actually I remember as a youngster being quite a revelation because the stereo separation was so good on those 4-track tapes. You could really pan out half the tracks on some of those stereo songs. Martha My Dear acapella anyone?

Nov 04, 09 - 11:55 am Comment from: MacTony

LOL...... Can you say torrent?

Nov 04, 09 - 11:59 am Comment from: Big Als MBP

@ Predrag,

I actually copied it off of FM radio on to cassette. The local radio station made such a big deal about playing it commercial and DJ free so I was well prepared when they started the first side.

I still have those cassettes somewhere.

Core audio, anyone?

at least it's an apple!

Nov 04, 09 - 12:19 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

No Lossless?

They've GOT to be kidding!

If you like or dislike the Beatles one thing is clear, those who have control of their music are greedy bastards and they can stick their MP3 where the sun doesn't shine.

Nov 04, 09 - 12:52 pm Comment from: LeftCoastDude

I am not spending $279 for a compressed format. I can spend that amount for the CD/DVD set on Amazon, rip it with Apple Lossless on iTunes for permanent storage. Then to use it elsewhere (like my iPhone or on MP3 disks), I can just convert it with iTunes, still retaining the Lossless files.

Oh, yeah, I did that.

This is really the dumbest idea of a lot of dumb ideas.

Nov 04, 09 - 12:53 pm Comment from: LeftCoastDude

BTW, the remastered collection is outstanding. I'm really impressed with what Capitol/EMI/Apple/whoever did with this remastering. It is one of the best ever.

"Most of the people on welfare and food stamps seem to be more obese than the general population. Are they Repubs?"

Please present real evidence of this.

Nov 04, 09 - 01:37 pm Comment from: m159

What are Beatles?

I've heard of worms in computers.