Beatles coming to Itunes?
O.K. all snark aside about the music itself, my question is this: why would anyone find this exciting (assuming that the rumors are true)? Particularly Beatles fans?
If you are a Beatles fan, wouldn’t you already have the music? And if you wanted it digitally, wouldn’t you also be better off just ripping it yourself in higher quality, DRM free format from the CD’s? I mean I understand buying newer versions of the CD’s if they come with bonus tracks or outtakes or whatever. But isn’t the catalog pretty well mined at this point?
I mean is this whole “exciting announcement” thing just lame marketing? Or are there people who would be or are actually excited about this?
Is it just the possibility of newer generations of younger people being gullib…..er….I mean interested in discovering it and they buy music mostly in digital format?
I’d feel this way about even my favorite bands, so this is definitely not just a Beatles thing.
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Is it just the possibility of newer generations of younger people being gullib…..er….I mean interested in discovering it and they buy music mostly in digital format?
I think it’s a mix of this and those people who like them but didn’t care enough to take the time to rip the music themselves. As with most things entertainment there are the hardcore fans who won’t be affected by this because they’ve already done it, the haters who could give a shit, and the casual fans who will be happy to add it to their collection and hear the songs on the shuffle.
I agree that’s probably the case, which is why I think it’s just mostly marketing hyperbole. The casual fans may do what you describe but I can’t imagine them being “excited” about it.
I think Techdirt’s headline sums it up perfectly:
“Beatles & Apple Finally Going To Let You Pay Money For The Beatles Songs You’ve Been Pirating For Years”
Note: I hadn’t actually realized they already made their announcement when writing this. Leaving here to wallow in my super-wrongness:
I dont’ think the exciting announcement is going to be The Beatles. That isn’t to say I don’t think they’re going to announce acquiring the rights to sell The Beatles catalog in iTunes, but Apple always has little bits of word play in their teasers. Knowing that they recently bought Lala, an online, cloud-based music streaming service, and the whole “never forget” tagline, I think they’re going to announce some sort of cloud-based iTunes store where you never actually download your songs, you just stream them from iTunes or something like that. You know, a service that “never forgets” your purchases or something like that.
Or it’s going to fly iTunes into a building or something. Either or.
Hmm…I guess I was wrong. There are a lot more technically savvy, tone deaf people out there than I thought.
You just can’t keep the best, most talented, most important rock band of all time down, Kev. They’re undeniable. What can I say?